enchainment

noun

Definition of enchainmentnext
as in enslavement

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  1. restriction
  2. confinement
  3. chain
  4. incarceration
  5. captivity
  6. constraint
  7. hindrance
  8. restraint
Noun
  • Will Republican lawmakers continue to use the myth of widespread voter fraud to implement further restrictions on mail-in and early voting?
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Colorado lawmakers have placed restrictions on such arrangements in recent years, drawing lawsuits from Douglas and El Paso counties.
    John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of restriction
Noun
  • The dean, Marilyn Flynn, was sentenced to 18 months of home confinement after pleading guilty to one count of bribery.
    Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Navalny details the final years of his life spent in confinement, and implores the Russian people to resist Putin’s regime.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of confinement
Noun
  • Their cutbacks on spending forced a reckoning among restaurants, with fast-food brands like McDonald’s leaning into value menus and full-service chains like Red Lobster embarking on ambitious makeovers.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Taco Bell has been proactive in using social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram (META) to engage with users, and the Tex-Mex chain has even gone so far as to let customers vote through the Taco Bell app on which menu items should make a comeback.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of chain
Noun
  • Price’s speech drew the curtains on a historic bid to reimagine the East Bay’s criminal justice system, one that sought to correct for the nation’s legacy of mass incarceration that disproportionately affected Black residents and communities of color.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 18 Nov. 2024
  • And in 2022, Chesa Boudin, who advocated for restorative justice and ending mass incarceration, was ousted as San Francisco’s district attorney in a recall.
    Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
Definition of incarceration
Noun
  • Winning the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the second of Chan-wook’s vengeance trilogy finds Choi Min-sik as a drunkard who’s mysteriously imprisoned for 15 years, only to be unceremoniously released from captivity to discover what his past sins resulted in.
    Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The animal was weak and dehydrated when another bystander took it to the wildlife hospital operated by the Bird Alliance of Oregon, leading experts to suppose the fox had accidentally escaped from captivity or been dumped by people who kept her illegally.
    Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
Definition of captivity
Noun
  • What would be most helpful during the holidays to alleviate stress, time constraints, family commitments and lack of time for self-care?
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • About 7% of HSE students take courses to train as nurses, medical technicians and welders but a much greater number, perhaps more than 20%-30%, can’t take the courses because of space and transportation constraints.
    John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of constraint
Noun
  • Russia can help China’s defense of its northern near waters and secure access to far waters through the Arctic Ocean – an increasingly important arena as global climate change reduces the hindrance posed by sea ice.
    Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
  • With much of its rugged terrain a hindrance to agriculture, mercenaries became a primary export.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of hindrance
Noun
  • The combination of these two attributes offered each side a sense of psychological security and common consensus, allowing for the informed restraint of lethality.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
  • The Business Combination Agreement includes conditions such as the absence of any legal restraint preventing the consummation of the transactions and the effectiveness of the Registration Statement/Proxy Statement under the Securities Act.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of restraint
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