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What does detain mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word detain? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
  2. (transitive) To put under custody.
  3. (transitive) To keep back or from; to withhold.
  4. (transitive) To seize goods for official purposes.
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His native area seems determined to detain foreign tourists by printing road signs in Irish only.
In the later years, major state intelligence agencies had their safe houses to detain and question Tiger guerrilla suspects.
Insofar as form and language detain him, they detain him as questions of ideology.
Can the Commonwealth detain bankrupts for the purpose of examining them, on the basis that some bankrupts are likely to flee before examination?
Likewise, state police are not permitted to arrest or detain solely for the purpose of asking questions.
He denied all knowledge of the bank robbery, but police were able to detain him on a technicality.

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