Quarantine Definition Oxford Dictionary

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Quarantine definition oxford dictionary. Quarantine in british english. A period of time when an animal or a person that has or may have a disease is kept away from others in order to prevent the disease from spreading. Animals brought into the country are automatically quarantined. A period of time during which an animal or person that might have a disease is kept away from.

Many animals die in quarantine. 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. Uncountable jump to other results. The place or area where such detention is enforced.

Quarantine something somebody to put an animal or a person into quarantine. A state period or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed. Learn more about the words added to the oed this quarter in our new word notes by oed revision editor jonathan dent.