quarantining

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Definition of quarantining

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of quarantine
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verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of quarantine

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)The action of establishing or entering a quarantine.
    “Amendments proposed by this Bill will remove the restriction that the foreign income be from the same foreign source - that is, per country quarantining will be eliminated. This will apply to deductions for losses claimed in the 1990- 91 income year and subsequent years.”
    “Speaking about obeah with people in Rio Moro before the police shootings, then, I often met with disavowal, condemnation, or a temporal quarantining of obeah in a moribund past.”
    “The quarantine measures may not be necessary. In this manuscript we discuss Bahrain’s data and experience about quarantining of international travelers.”
    “The concept of in-country quarantining is commendable, but one still wonders why covid-free countries like Vanuatu, Solomons (? maybe one or two cases) and Samoa even need to have quarantining in the first place, given that NZ and AU have a “bubble” and even interstate travellers can still cross the VIC border currently with their outbreak that far exceeds the total number of any of those countries cases, ever.”
    “This immunity arises because contact-tracing protocols based on smartphone capabilities can lead to highly efficient quarantining of infected population members and thus the extinguishing of nascent epidemics.”

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Etymology

By surface analysis, quarantine + -ing.

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