detention
maintenance of a person in custody or confinement, especially while awaiting a court decision.
the withholding of what belongs to or is claimed by another.
of or relating to detention or used to detain: the detention room of a police station.
Origin of detention
1Other words from detention
- non·de·ten·tion, noun
- pre·de·ten·tion, noun
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How to use detention in a sentence
What’s happening is that the government is creating detention camps all over the country.
Podcast: How a 135-year-old law lets India shutdown the internet | Anthony Green | September 2, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThe government has provided limited information, and sometimes a family’s last known address is … a detention center.
Morning Report: Barrios Failed to Disclose Income | Voice of San Diego | September 1, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoFor example, often the last known address provided was an immigration detention center.
Border Report: The Lingering Trauma of Family Separation | Maya Srikrishnan | August 31, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoProsecutors appealed the case, triggering Szutowicz’s current detention.
Poland’s LGBTQ activists confront growing crackdown | Kaela Roeder | August 14, 2020 | Washington BladeIn the spring, Alma Migrante and other groups sued to improve safety in migrant detention facilities in Baja California.
Border Report: One More Way the Pandemic Is Hurting Asylum-Seekers | Maya Srikrishnan | August 3, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
He then escaped from his detention and arrived on Tverskaya Avenue to join his supporters.
After two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday.
Pope-Shooter Ali Agca’s Very Weird Vatican Visit | Barbie Latza Nadeau | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is being held in pretrial detention in Baku and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhile in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.
Behind Bars for the Holidays: 11 Political Prisoners We Want to See Free In 2015 | Movements.Org | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPerhaps the guards at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities will finally be allowed to smoke cubans, too.
The cause of Haggard's mysterious detention in Rome, and of their own sudden flitting, became at once clear to her.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsThis detention was very vexatious, for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying in a very exposed situation.
By statute and order the Central Authority had authorised compulsory detention for four hours and the exaction of a task of work.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney WebbI raced upward along the same paths by which Prince Genner had led me to my own detention quarters.
Valley of the Croen | Lee TarbellOur primary object in proposing detention is neither punishment nor imprisonment.
English Poor Law Policy | Sidney Webb
British Dictionary definitions for detention
/ (dɪˈtɛnʃən) /
the act of detaining or state of being detained
custody or confinement, esp of a suspect awaiting trial
(as modifier): a detention order
a form of punishment in which a pupil is detained after school
the withholding of something belonging to or claimed by another
Origin of detention
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