Arrest (disambiguation)

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Arrest may refer to:

  • Arrest, the action of police or other authority, or even in some circumstances a private civilian, to apprehend and take under guard a person who is suspected of committing a crime
  • Arrest, a commune of the Somme département in France
  • Cardiac arrest, the cessation of normal circulation of the blood due to failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract effectively
  • "The Arrest", a song by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice from the 1971 rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar
  • Sometimes "arrest" is used to mean merely "stop" (transitive), as in "to try to arrest the decline in sales".
  • An aircraft that uses a tailhook to bring it to a stop upon landing (either on a ship or land) is said to have made an "arrested landing" or an "arrestment."