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CURFEW definition: 1. a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times, usually at night, especially…. Learn more.
1. : the sounding of a bell at evening. 2. a. : a regulation enjoining the withdrawal of usually specified persons (such as juveniles or military personnel) from the streets or the closing of business establishments or places of assembly at a stated hour. The city ordered a curfew to prevent further rioting. b.
A curfew is an order that imposes certain regulations during specified hours. Typically, curfews order all people affected by them to remain indoors during the evening and nighttime hours. Such an order is most often issued by public authorities, but may also be given by the owner of a house to those living in the household.
CURFEW meaning: 1. a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times, usually at night, especially…. Learn more.
Today, curfew is most commonly used to refer to the set time that one has to be home (as in We have to be in by curfew), the rule that sets the time (as in There is a curfew in effect), or the period during which one is required to be home (as in We’re not allowed out during curfew).
A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war.
noun. /ˈkɜːfjuː/ /ˈkɜːrfjuː/ [countable, uncountable] a law that says that people must not go outside after a particular time at night until the morning; the time after which nobody must go outside. The army imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew. You must get home before curfew. Collocations War and peace. Extra Examples. Topics War and conflict c1.
CURFEW meaning: 1 : an order or law that requires people to be indoors after a certain time at night; 2 : the period of time when such an order or law is in effect.
a rule that everyone must stay at home between particular times, usually at night, especially during a war or a period of political trouble: to impose / lift a curfew. a midnight curfew. He was shot for breaking (= not obeying) the curfew. mainly US.
Curfew is a rule or law that sets a time that certain people have to be off the streets. A town may set a curfew for teenagers, for example, although many parents impose a stricter curfew for their own kids.
