quarantine
noun/ˈkwɒrəntiːn/
/ˈkwɔːrəntiːn/
[uncountable]- a period of time when an animal or a person that has or may have a disease is kept away from others in order to prevent the disease from spreading
- in quarantine The dog was kept in quarantine for six months.
- quarantine regulations
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- strict
- enforce
- keep somebody/something in
- put somebody/something in
- …
- period
- zone
- facility
- …
- in quarantine
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Italian quarantina ‘forty days’, from quaranta ‘forty’.Want to learn more?
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