curfew

Converse of object

• impose: They have imposed a curfew on the 37,000 refugees to be inside their tents by 10pm.
• defy: The crowd had defied a night-time curfew to carry out the protest.
• enforce: Beginning tonight, there will be a curfew enforced within the limits of our fair town.
• lift: Even when they lift the curfew we cannot go out, we are so close to the president's compound.
• break: Let's say the teen has broken curfew by a few hours.
• tag: There are a number of options open to courts including tagging, curfews, intensive supervision and surveillance programs and community punishment.

Adjective modifier

• 11pm: A new bill in 2004 replaced this, and included additional measures such as an 11pm curfew for firework use.
• 10pm: Two of the dead had ASBOs against them and were under 10pm curfew.
• strict: They have to abide by the house rules, including a strict curfew.
• military: A military curfew was imposed on the area for a period of 34 hours with movement of people heavily restricted.

Modifies a noun

• bell: A thousand chimneys ceased smoking at the curfew bell.
• order: Child curfew orders prevent parents from deciding whether to let their children out at night.
• scheme: Families can offer their relative a place to stay to enable them to be released early under the home detention curfew scheme.
• power: The Court found that the curfew power could not have been intended to include the right to use force.

Noun used with modifier

• night-time: The crowd had defied a night-time curfew to carry out the protest.
• 9pm: There's even a 9pm curfew - signaled, somewhat forcefully, by a volley of gunfire across the valley.
• detention: Families can offer their relative a place to stay to enable them to be released early under the home detention curfew scheme.
• midnight: A midnight curfew was still in force - not a safe place for a stranger.
• night: No night curfew in the hotel: concierge service is 24 hours a day.