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Etymology
From self- + quarantine.
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self-quarantine (third-person singular simple present self-quarantines, present participle self-quarantining, simple past and past participle self-quarantined)
- (intransitive, epidemiology) To refrain from physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.
- Synonym: self-isolate
2020 March 22, Alex Wigglesworth, Maria L. La Ganga, Richard Winton, James Queally, “California coronavirus death toll rises to 27, including four in L.A. County”, in Los Angeles Times:He said that he became sick with relatively mild symptoms about a week ago and self-quarantined at his home.
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Noun
self-quarantine (countable and uncountable, plural self-quarantines)
- (epidemiology) Isolation by avoiding physical contact with other individuals, especially in order to reduce the transmission of a contagious disease.
- Synonyms: self-isolation, home quarantine, home isolation
2005 November, Moshe Kress, “The Effect of Social Mixing Controls on the Spread of Smallpox—A Two-Level Model”, in Health Care Management Science, volume 8, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, page 277:We apply this model to a large urban area (9 million people) and evaluate the effect of situational awareness (early detection and response) and several response measures, such as mass vaccination, quarantine, closure, mass-transit shutdown, and voluntary self-quarantine on the spread of the epidemic and on the total number of casualties.
2020 March 22, Alex Wigglesworth, Maria L. La Ganga, Richard Winton, James Queally, “California coronavirus death toll rises to 27, including four in L.A. County”, in Los Angeles Times:Eleven city firefighters have tested positive, and more than 50 are in self-quarantine.
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