- a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
- a period, originally 40 days, of detention or isolation imposed upon ships, persons, animals, or plants on arrival at a port or place, when suspected of carrying some infectious or contagious disease.
- a system of measures maintained by governmental authority at ports, frontiers, etc., for preventing the spread of disease.
- the branch of the governmental service concerned with such measures.
- a place or station at which such measures are carried out, as a special port or dock where ships are detained.
- the detention or isolation enforced.
- the place, especially a hospital, where people are detained.
- a period of 40 days.
- social, political, or economic isolation imposed as a punishment, as in ostracizing an individual or enforcing sanctions against a foreign state.
- to put in or subject to quarantine.
- to exclude, detain, or isolate for political, social, or hygienic reasons.
- a period of isolation or detention, esp of persons or animals arriving from abroad, to prevent the spread of disease, usually consisting of the maximum known incubation period of the suspected disease
- the place or area where such detention is enforced
- any period or state of enforced isolation
- to isolate in or as if in quarantine
- to withhold (a portion of a welfare payment) from a person or group of people
