Sorry Harry has been missing in action, the office was hit with a whirlwind of germs, leaving most of us ill and a little snowed under! The office should have been placed under quarantine with the amount of bugs, but we are all back fighting fit and ready to rumble!

Definition:  A state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.

Synonyms:  Seclusion, Segregation, Separation.

Example:  « The ​horse had to ​spend several ​months in quarantine when it ​reached ​Britain. »