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detention
  1. (uncountable) The act of detaining or the state of being detained.
  2. (countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of a student being punished.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “She has in my view made up a story of arrest and detention between May and September 1999.”
      “After repeated tardiness, the student was placed in detention, causing a state of being prevented from proceeding with their regular activities.”
      “She was sexually abused as a child, she only completed grade 9, and she contracted Hepatitis C apparently while in detention.”
detainer
  1. (law) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody.
  2. One who detains.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Section 18 requires an intention to do grievous bodily harm or an intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detainer or any person.”
      “The creditor later secured a judgment against the bankrupt for the unlawful detainer of the property so purchased.”
      “The detainee and the detainer, they cannot deny their common past which they spent in the same boat.”
detainee
  1. Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The detainee is allowed to go to work in the morning and to come home at night within a set time frame.”
      “Whenever one person is lawfully in the custody of another, the custodian owes a duty of care to the detainee.”
      “Another former detainee was released with no money or food and spent yesterday alone and hungry in his empty accommodation.”
detainment
  1. The condition of being detained; detention
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  3. Examples:
    1. “After the incident, the detainment of the suspect was deemed necessary for further investigation.”
      “After the protesters breached the security barricades, they were placed under detainment and prevented from proceeding further towards the government building.”
      “I spoke against the detainment of political prisoners, so they detained me and made me a political prisoner.”
detaining
detainments
detainings
detentions
  1. plural of detention
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In effect, these measures outlaw political campaigns against arbitrary or illegal detentions.”
      “But if the extent of the imposition is more serious like detentions and incarcerations, I think it's entirely unjustified.”
      “No wonder I was able to sweet talk my way out of detentions better then her.”
detainees
  1. plural of detainee
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  3. Examples:
    1. “One example was dressing hostages in orange jumpsuits to mimic U.S. treatment of detainees.”
      “The wall prevents detainees from meeting each other and is a barrier to easy access to the library.”
      “Straw has claimed that British consular staff were denied access to the detainees.”
detainers
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