0 a specific period of time in which a person or animal that has a disease, or may have one, must stay or be kept away from others in order to prevent the spread of the disease:
The doctor said I could go home as long as I agreed to stay in quarantine for at least seven days.
Owners risk having to leave their pets abroad or put them in quarantine if they fail to follow the rules.
The government announced mandatory quarantines for high-risk travellers returning from countries with Ebola outbreaks.
I’ve been doing a lot of baking during quarantine.
The country has been hit hard, with many people under quarantine and food supplies scarce.
The couple created a podcast to showcase their quarantine life while raising funds for people affected by the pandemic.
1 a period of time in which something such as a product or plant that is infected or poisonous, or that contains substances that could be dangerous, is kept in a place where it cannot harm anyone or anything until it is no longer dangerous or can be dealt with safely:
Oregon has imposed an emergency quarantine on oak firewood from California to slow the spread of the fungus.
Please note that certain pharmaceutical items are subject to quarantine and customs restrictions in some countries.
If a radiation alarm is confirmed for a shipment, Radiation Protection agents will order it to be put into quarantine.
2 a period of time in which people or animals are not allowed to enter or leave a particular area or building where some or all of those in it have been affected by a harmful substance or disease, until the danger of harming others has passed:
Two farms north of the city were placed under quarantine due to an anthrax outbreak among livestock.
The office was put into a brief quarantine on Friday after an editor opened a Halloween card with a powdery substance.
Patients taking radioactive iodine must stay in quarantine in hospital for 24 hours to avoid exposing other people to radiation.
3 to stay away from others for a period of time because you have a disease, or may have one, in order to prevent the spread of the disease:
All international arrivals, regardless of where they are from, must quarantine upon their arrival.
The government is looking into how long those who have been exposed to COVID-19 need to quarantine.
A friend of mine had symptoms but instead of quarantining himself he decided to carry on as normal.
It's not uncommon to quarantine passengers after a widespread illness appears to be present on board a plane.
The dogs are being quarantined for 10 days because it was not clear whether they are up to date on rabies shots.
Two weeks ago, authorities quarantined 1,222 cattle that had eaten feed containing cattle byproducts.
4 to keep something such as a product or plant that is infected or poisonous, or that contains substances that could be dangerous, in a place where it cannot harm anyone or anything until it is no longer dangerous or can be dealt with safely:
If the traps capture a certain number of flies in a particular area, fruit from that area is quarantined until the end of the season.
After a single bag of rice tested positive for melamine, the company decided to quarantine the entire shipment.
The items were quarantined after a reported exposure to asbestos
5 to prevent people or animals from entering or leaving a particular area or building where some or all of those in it have been affected by a harmful substance or disease, until the danger of harming others has passed:
6 a period of time during which a person or animal that might have a disease is kept away from other people or animals so that the disease cannot spread:
7 a period of time during which an animal or person that might have a disease is kept away from other people or animals so that the disease cannot spread:
8 to keep an animal or person away from other animals or people to prevent them from spreading a disease:
The city had no means of quarantining such large numbers of ill arrivals.
Thus, in order to ascertain that all target fish were uninfected upon arrival at our laboratory, they were quarantined for 117 days prior to trials and regularly observed for symptoms.
In theory, the two would work together to reduce the threat of disease and expand the area of safety, with immunization and the cleansing of pasture gradually replacing semi-permanent quarantines.
The veterinary investigations service is not directly involved in advising on the health conditions under which captive birds are imported and quarantined.
I assure him that positively all imported live poultry is quarantined under the present legislation.
The maximum number of non-human primates which may be quarantined within a facility depends on the size of the facility.
We are told that live cattle are to be allowed to land if they are quarantined for fourteen days.
The cost of quarantining them is for agreement between the owner and the facility concerned.
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