noun [C,U]
1 a law which 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.
2 (AmE) a time when children must be home in the evening:
I have a 10 o'clock curfew.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for curfew is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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