Words and phrases that have a meaning related to detention: (149 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, interruption, lag, lingering, 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:
Also try:inactivity, restraint
— Adjectives for detention: preventive, pretrial, such, illegal, long, administrative, arbitrary, continued, indefinite, unlawful, juvenile, more...
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