Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
IMPRISONMENT
imprisonment, internment
(noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
imprisonment
(noun) putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement
(noun) the state of being imprisoned; “he was held in captivity until he died”; “the imprisonment of captured soldiers”; “his ignominious incarceration in the local jail”; “he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
imprisonment (countable and uncountable, plural imprisonments)
A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
Synonyms
• incarceration
• jaildom
Source: Wiktionary
Im*pris"on ment, n. Etym: [OE. enprisonment; F. emprisonnement.]
Definition: The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets. Blackstone. False imprisonment. (Law) See under False.
Syn.
– Incarceration; custody; confinement; durance; restraint.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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