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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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So mental health professionals will be under pressure to practise defensively and, if in doubt, to detain.
We are a civilian organisation and our officers have no executive powers, such as the authority to detain or arrest people.
As a private security guard, he had no authority to arrest or detain the pair.
In the later years, major state intelligence agencies had their safe houses to detain and question Tiger guerrilla suspects.
I have calls to make, and do not wish to detain you for longer than is needful.
Can the Commonwealth detain bankrupts for the purpose of examining them, on the basis that some bankrupts are likely to flee before examination?

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