incarcerations
- 1Plural of incarceration.
Repeated incarcerations made it nearly impossible for him to hold a steady job.
Researchers linked rising incarcerations to changes in sentencing policy.
Note
The plural exists because incarceration counts as well as names a condition. Uncountable, it describes imprisonment as a state (the cost of incarceration); countable, it marks one spell of confinement, and the plural tallies several such spells. The same plural also serves the medical meaning, where incarcerations are constrictions of a hernial sac that make it irreducible without amounting to strangulation.
incarcerations is a form of incarceration
incarceration, noun: The act of confining someone, or the condition of being confined, especially in prison. Full entry
- Forms
- incarcerationincarcerations plural
- Spelling
- incarceration → incarcerations: add -s
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