Usually means: Imprisonment following conviction of crime.
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  1. incarceration: Merriam-Webster
  2. incarceration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. incarceration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. incarceration: Vocabulary.com
  5. Incarceration, incarceration: Wordnik
  6. incarceration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. incarceration: Wiktionary
  8. incarceration: Dictionary.com
  9. incarceration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. incarceration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Incarceration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Incarceration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. incarceration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. incarceration: Rhymezone
  15. Incarceration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. incarceration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. incarceration: FreeDictionary.org
  18. incarceration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. incarceration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. incarceration: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. incarceration: Legal dictionary

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  1. incarceration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. incarceration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. incarceration: Medical dictionary

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  1. Incarceration: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See incarcerate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (incarceration)

noun:  (chiefly US) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment.
noun:  (surgery, dated) A strangulation, as in a hernia.
noun:  A constriction of the hernial sac, rendering it irreducible, but not great enough to cause strangulation.

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