quarantine

[US]/ˈkwɒrəntiːn/
[UK]/ˈkwɔːrəntiːn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a period of isolation imposed on individuals or animals who are sick to prevent the spread of disease
vt. to isolate and restrict the movement of individuals or animals to prevent the spread of disease

Phrases & Collocations

quarantine facility

mandatory quarantine

quarantine measures

plant quarantine

quarantine inspection

quarantine office

health quarantine

quarantine certificate

quarantine service

Example Sentences

many animals die in quarantine .

Rhyncnophorus ferrugineus (Olivier) is a quarantine pest in our country.

James was quarantined for three weeks when he had scarlet fever.

Therefore, these methods deserve to be extensively applied in quarantine and control of codling moth in China.

CHEN Guang-quan; ZENG Jing; ZHANG Hui-yuan; et al.Beijing Entry-Exite Inspection and Quarantine(Beijing 100026; China);

The dodder is one kind of annual autoecious weed of alfalfa, cosmopolitan weed quarantine object.

Nosemosis is a quarantine disease of honeybee, which greatly hinders c olony development and reduces the yield of honeybee products.

One such scheme involves an improved control method designed to automatically quarantine trouble spots and gerrymander the remaining grid into islands of balanced load and generation.

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