false imprisonment

/fɔls ɪmˌprɪznmənt/
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Other forms: false imprisonments

Definitions of false imprisonment
  1. noun
    (law) confinement without legal authority
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    type of:
    imprisonment, internment
    the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
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