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prison
  1. A place or institution of confinement, especially of long-term confinement for those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
  2. (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
  3. (colloquial) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “These homes are built for children whose parents are in prison serving life sentences!”
prisoner
  1. A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
  2. Any person held against their will.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The order is taken to be a warrant committing the prisoner into custody for the Corrective Services Act.”
      “A wartime prisoner, generally considered to be a prisoner of war, can be held indefinitely as long as the conflict lasts, but must be released as soon as the conflict ends.”
      “The earl of Devonshire being interested in the blood of York, that was rather feared than nocent, remained prisoner in the Tower.”
imprisonment
  1. A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Is the limitation on telephone contact with the media a part of the sentence of imprisonment itself?”
      “During their imprisonment the couple, who claim they are innocent, were split up and put in grimy concrete cells.”
      “In any jurisdiction in the country, aiding and abetting a felony is a crime, subject to prosecution, trial, and imprisonment.”
prisonhouse
  1. The main building of a prison.
prisonment
  1. (now rare) Imprisonment. [from 15th c.]
  2. Examples:
    1. “According to state-run Al-Ahram newspaper, 14 were condemned to be executed, four received life im prisonment and six were acquitted.”
imprisoner
imprisonments
  1. plural of imprisonment
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They were found to have presided over miscarriages of justice that led to wrongful imprisonments.”
      “The four areas are the demonstrations, the arrests and imprisonments, the trials, and the executions.”
      “Usually they go through long-term imprisonments and lately one minority religious figure of the Ahl-e Haqq was sentenced to death and executed.”
prisonhouses
  1. plural of prisonhouse
imprisoners
  1. plural of imprisoner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “And within the Moliere canon, there aren't many hypocrites, misanthropes, suspicious husbands or would-be wife imprisoners that the Yorkshire-born Bedford hasn't sampled.”
      “In addition, the untranslated memoirs of Jozef Juras and Alexander Barica tell astonishing tales of the paranoid and fanatical mentality of their imprisoners.”
prisonments
  1. plural of prisonment
prisoners
  1. plural of prisoner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The warden dismissed the accusations made by Smith and the other prisoners as lies and exaggerations.”
      “Yet, unaccountably, once he was faced with prisons, prisoners and warders, Balfour stopped entertaining the people.”
      “It was an amazing place which was full of sadness, and you could feel the very wairua of those prisoners who had been there once.”
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