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arrest
  1. A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.
  2. The condition of being stopped, standstill.
  3. (law) The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  4. A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  5. A device to physically arrest motion.
  6. (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  7. (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  8. (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “The arrest warrant must stipulate facts and grounds for the arrest of the suspect.”
      “A series of earthquakes would lead to the definitive arrest of the project.”
arrestment
  1. The action of arresting (in any sense)
  2. (law, Scotland) The process that prohibits a debtor from making payment to the creditor until another debt due to the person making use of the arrestment by such creditor is paid.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “After failing to repay the loan on time, the bank initiated an arrestment, seizing his assets to settle the outstanding debt.”
      “Following the arrestment and sideline for a pushback, the flight-deck chief emphatically signaled for a shutdown of the port engine.”
      “His arrestment was reported to the Spanish Judge, who started actions for an extradition that did not occur in the end.”
arrester
  1. One who places another under arrest.
  2. A device that stops or prevents, such as a railway buffer, or a spark arrester that prevents sparks from being released to start fires.
  3. Examples:
    1. “The fatal accident occurred when one car failed to climb an incline and became trapped on a roll-back arrester nearly 40 ft from the ground.”
      “The fuselage is strengthened for repeated carrier catapult launches and arrester landings.”
      “The arrester serves to immobilize the head during feeding or when the dragonfly is in tandem flight.”
arrestingness
  1. The quality of being arresting, of suddenly capturing the attention.
arrestability
  1. The quality of being arrestable.
arrestor
  1. Alternative form of arrester
  2. Examples:
    1. “Fortunately, it is easy to meet the spark arrestor requirements of NFPA 211 by caulking wire mesh to the top of a chimney pot.”
      “Chimneys must be insulated properly A spark arrestor on top of the chimney will protect your roof.”
      “A folding wing was designed for carrier use while the rear fuselage was strengthened to handle the arrestor cable hook.”
arrestee
  1. a person who is under arrest.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Should the police officer follow his own view of the Constitution in the hope that the unwarned arrestee will confess to the crime?”
      “A strip search will always be unreasonable if it is carried out abusively or for the purpose of humiliating or punishing the arrestee.”
      “It is prohibited to subject an arrestee or a remand prisoner to medical or scientific experiments regardless of his or her consent.”
arrestation
arrestations
arrestments
arrestees
  1. plural of arrestee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This would suggest that dependence on both alcohol and illicit substances tends to be the norm for dependent arrestees.”
      “Although arrestees who are not convicted can later have their DNA removed from databases, this would involve a bureaucratic process.”
      “A random selection of arrestees are approached within 48 hours of their arrest and asked to participate in the study.”
arrestors
  1. plural of arrestor
  2. Examples:
    1. “Caps also function as spark arrestors, preventing sparks from landing on the roof or other nearby combustible material.”
      “This is to say that cable, connectors, grounding kits, lightning arrestors, and other non-radiating components would not affect signal transmission at all.”
      “ZnO surger arrestors and principles and applications of pulsed power are the subject of separate chapters.”
arresters
  1. plural of arrester
  2. Examples:
    1. “The above tower is equipped with cable heads, lightning arresters and vertical cabling.”
      “Philip Monckton, a Scepter vice president, said the company did not use flame arresters on the cans it made in Canada.”
      “The earliest electrical application of SiC was in lightning arresters in electric power systems.”
arrests
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