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detention

/dih-ten-shuhn/US // dɪˈtɛn ʃən //UK // (dɪˈtɛnʃən) //

拘留,拘留所,拘押,拘禁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of detaining.
    • : the state of being detained.
    • : 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.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to detention or used to detain: the detention room of a police station.

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Examples

  • What’s happening is that the government is creating detention camps all over the country.

  • The government has provided limited information, and sometimes a family’s last known address is … a detention center.

  • For example, often the last known address provided was an immigration detention center.

  • Prosecutors appealed the case, triggering Szutowicz’s current detention.

  • In the spring, Alma Migrante and other groups sued to improve safety in migrant detention facilities in Baja California.

  • 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.

  • He is being held in pretrial detention in Baku and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

  • While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.

  • Perhaps 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.

  • This 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.

  • I raced upward along the same paths by which Prince Genner had led me to my own detention quarters.

  • Our primary object in proposing detention is neither punishment nor imprisonment.