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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to detention:   (156 results)

Often used in the same context:
detainment, solitary confinement, jail, confinement, incarceration, detention centre, prison, remand, deportation, custody, detainee, arrest, interrogation, imprisonment, prisoner, brig, lockup, rearrest, internment, asylum, supermax, hunger strike, incommunicado, sentencing, consular, refugee, extradition, parole, inmates, penitentiary, correctional, gulag, convicts, watchhouse, psychiatric, curfew, torture, habeas corpus, detainer, bail, juvenile, penal colony, habeas, magistrate, reformatory, remand home, recognisance, interrogators, internment camp, immigration, captivity, handcuffs, borstal, gaol, judicial, reeducation, resettlement, misdemeanant, mistreatment, calaboose, arraignment, pow camp, deportee, stockade, internees, suspects, sallyport, arrestee, hakea, juvie, wardship, supervision, overcrowding, court martial, visa, repatriation, mentally ill, migrant, probation, quarantine, dialysis, namo, penal institution, reimprisonment, tribunals, cellblock, concentration camp, stipendiary magistrate, guantanamo, escapees, rehabilitation, expulsion, lockdown, el aaiun, questioning, hospital, outpatient, spying, trial, mental health, coaling, sedition, detentions, postponement, hospitalization, delay, imposition, stoppage, adjournment, enlistment, stay, absence, continuance, forfeiture, layoff, trespass

More specific:
break, cunctation, dalliance, dawdling, deferment, deferral, demurrage, disruption, gap, house arrest, imprisonment, internment, interruption, lag, lingering, postponement, procrastination, retardation, shillyshally, slowdown, tarriance, tarrying, trifling, wasting time

Appears in the definition of:
bop, demurrage, federal bureau of prisons, house of correction, parole, reformatory, reform school, training school

More general:
confinement, inactivity, restraint

Synonyms:
confinement, custody, delay, hold, holdup

Also try:
— Adjectives for detention: preventive, pretrial, such, illegal, long, administrative, arbitrary, continued, indefinite, unlawful, juvenile, more...

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