quarantining

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noun

The action of establishing or entering a quarantine.

UncommonScrabble 22

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of quarantine
nounquarantining (usually uncountable, plural quarantinings)

plural quarantinings

  1. uncountableusuallyThe action of establishing or entering a quarantine.

    The quarantine measures may not be necessary. In this manuscript we discuss Bahrain’s data and experience about quarantining of international travelers.

    2021 January 12, Abdulkarim Abdulrahman, Manaf AlSabbagh, Abdulla AlAwadhi, Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq, Ali A. Rabaan, Stephen Atkin, Manaf AlQahtani, “Quarantining arriving travelers in the era of COVID-19: balancing the risk and benefits a learning experience from Bahrain”, in Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines, volume 7, number 1, →DOI
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    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.

    1990, “TAXATION LAWS AMENDMENT (FOREIGN INCOME) BILL 1990”, in Australian Taxation Office, archived from the original on 09 May 2024

    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.

    2020, J. Brent Crosson, Experiments with Power: Obeah and the Remaking of Religion in Trinidad, University of Chicago Press, page 52

    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.

    2021 May 27, Holly Lawton, “Pacific Labour Scheme: expanding while borders are closed”, in devpolicy, archived from the original on 09 May 2024

    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.

    2021 June 23, Vir B Bulchandani, Saumya Shivam, Sanjay Moudgalya, S L Sondhi, “Digital herd immunity and COVID-19”, in Physical Biology, volume 18, number 4, →DOI

Origin

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“quarantining.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarantining. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quarantining,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quarantining.

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