See Also: workers (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
foreign workers(encyclopedia)
Social workers(health)
Workers' Opposition(encyclopedia)
AUTO WORKERS(finance)
Workers Compensation(law)
workers' compensation(encyclopedia)
workers' compensation(medicine)
voluntary workers(medicine)
United Automobile Workers(encyclopedia)

confinement (oh) and workers (as used in expressions) (sh)


confinement (oh)



[U] formal the act of putting someone in a room, prison etc that they are not allowed to leave, or the state of being there
::They were held in confinement for three weeks.
::He visited prisoners at their place of confinement.
-see also solitary confinement
[U and C] old-fashioned or formal the time when a woman gives birth to a baby
::the pros and cons of Home versus hospital confinement

workers (as used in expressions) (sh)