noun
entertainment; hospitality; attentive service
Polite noun for the act of entertaining or looking after guests; most often encountered in the set phrase お構いなく ('please don't go to any trouble').
See also: お構いなく
何のお構いもできませんで、失礼いたしました。
I'm sorry I wasn't able to offer you any proper hospitality.
お構いなく、どうぞご自由に。
Please don't go to any trouble; make yourself at home.
noun
banishment (Edo-period punishment)
Historical term for a form of banishment during the Edo period; not used in modern Japanese outside of historical contexts.
江戸時代には、お構いという追放刑があった。
In the Edo period, there was a punishment of banishment called お構い.