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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
detention
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a term of imprisonment/detention
▪ She was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment.
detention centre
preventive detention
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
administrative
▪ There were a further 303 prisoners held under administrative detention, without trial.
▪ They would instead be placed in administrative detention in the Qeziot detention centre in the Negev.
▪ Amnesty International opposes the detention without trial of all political detainees, including administrative detention.
▪ Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
▪ Many are held for months or years in administrative or pretrial detention, usually incommunicado.
arbitrary
▪ The case also highlights the widespread practice of arbitrary detention that affects about 2 million people each year.
preventive
▪ Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties.
▪ Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention, it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.
■ NOUN
camp
▪ More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
center
▪ Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes.
▪ Women are more likely to end up in county jails because INSrun detention centers sometimes can not handle females.
▪ The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
▪ He was in and out of juvenile detention centers for four years on weapons and drug charges and other violations.
▪ High Commissioner for Refugees visit the detention center twice a week to assess those requests.
centre
▪ Read in studio A new detention centre for immigrants has taken delivery of its first inmates, despite protests from local people.
▪ The judge gave Abraham a seven-year sentence in a juvenile detention centre, after which he will be released.
▪ So they put me in a detention centre for six months.
▪ Then again you may be taken from the detention centre to Pentonville Prison and locked up there if you complain.
▪ Read in studio Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest.
▪ It's planned to turn part of the site into a detention centre for the immigration service.
▪ Campsfield will house 200 people making it the biggest detention centre for immigrants in the country.
▪ They want to prevent the opening of a new detention centre at Campsfield House in Kidlington.
centres
▪ The bodies of 18 had been recovered and 366 had been traced, most of them to detention centres for rebels.
▪ Brutal conditions have been unearthed in a series of youth detention centres around the country.
▪ The resolution refers specifically to detention centres and humanitarian aid.
▪ Under these provisions local authorities are expected to provide Intermediate Treatment, which is designed to replace attendance and detention centres.
▪ It was confirmed last night that the idea of privately-run detention centres was being pursued within the Home Office.
▪ During 1975 and 1976 the detention centres would often get crowded.
▪ Reporters have not been allowed access to Chi Ma Wan or any of the other detention centres.
▪ Her requests to inspect several detention centres where troops were alleged to have tortured prisoners were also ignored.
officer
▪ Normally, Campbell said, two detention officers oversee such transfers.
■ VERB
hold
▪ Up to 1,000 asylum seekers were being held in detention at any one time, the report said.
▪ Olivier Nwaha Binya'a appears to be held in indefinite administrative detention without any opportunity to challenge his imprisonment.
▪ Detained Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival.
put
▪ So they put me in a detention centre for six months.
▪ They put the detention basin in the golf course.
▪ When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women.
release
▪ An estimated 200 people were to be released from detention immediately.
▪ He appealed against the verdict, and on July 16 was released from detention pending his appeal.
remain
▪ At least one political detainee, Corporal Thomas Benefo, remains in detention without charge or trial.
▪ Medina remains in federal detention in New York, while his attorney tries to arrange his bond.
▪ Most remain in detention without charge or trial.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
prison/labour/detention etc camp
▪ A forced labour camp, they call it.
▪ All the Luftwaffe crews who've ended up in Ireland have been put in prison camps.
▪ Even so there remain causes for concern in the Labour camp.
▪ I was in a friendly country and was less effectively guarded than I ever would be in a prison camp.
▪ More than 13,000 boat people in three Hong Kong detention camps demonstrated against forced repatriation on Nov. 11-12.
▪ Of these, 55,000 were to be punished either by receiving prison sentences or by being sent to labour camps.
▪ The men were unloaded in the reception area at Long Kesh Detention Camp and placed in cubicles.
▪ Then he was chosen, with another senior officer, to run the Athi River Detention Camp.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A dissident, recently released from detention, gave a press conference in the capital today.
▪ About a dozen people remain in detention without trial.
▪ By the 1920s the average period of detention for new immigrants lasted two weeks.
▪ Cases of detention without trial were common in the last century.
▪ He was in and out of juvenile detention for drugs charges as a teenager.
▪ Marik, who had been held in detention for over a year, was eventually found not guilty.
▪ Mrs Davis was released from detention yesterday and all charges have been dropped.
▪ Ormerod, age 19, was sentenced to nine months' detention for possessing and supplying cannabis.
▪ Sanchez has been released without charge after five days' detention.
▪ There was another riot at the men's detention center yesterday.
▪ They were taken into detention two weeks ago and still are not allowed visitors.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention, it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.
▪ Both psychiatrists said the patient did not satisfy the conditions necessary for continued detention under the Mental Health Act.
▪ Further detention can only be authorised in the case of a person who is suspected of having committed a serious arrestable offence.
▪ His detention has provoked the anger of his supporters, who include the radical state senator Tom Hayden.
▪ Lines scoured on flesh in the penal settlement, or detention beyond the Styx.
▪ Many of those refused asylum had faced arrest, detention and torture upon their return to Sri Lanka, according to the report.
▪ When they were rowdy and rude, I kept whole classes for detention.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detention

Detention \De*ten"tion\, n. [L. detentio: cf. F. d['e]tention. See Detain.]

  1. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

  2. The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

  3. Confinement; restraint; custody.

    The archduke Philip . . . found himself in a sort of honorable detention at Henry's court.
    --Hallam.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
detention

mid-15c., from Middle French détention (13c.), from Late Latin detentionem (nominative detentio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin detinere (see detain). Sense of "confinement" used by 1570s (in reference to Mary Queen of Scots). In reference to school punishment, recorded from 1882.

Wiktionary
detention

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The act of detaining or the state of being detained. 2 (context countable English) A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of a student being punished.

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WordNet
detention

  1. n. a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police" [syn: hold, custody]

  2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils"

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Wikipedia
Detention

Detention may refer to:

  • School detention, a form of punishment used in schools
  • Detention (imprisonment), imprisonment of someone guilty or suspected of a crime
  • Detention basin, an artificial flow control structure that is used to contain flood water for a limited period of a time
  • Remand (detention), the keeping in custody of an arrested person awaiting adjudication
  • Immigration detention, imprisonment of an unauthorised person entering a country
  • Detention of an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness (for the legal procedure involving a court order, see Involuntary commitment)
  • Preventive detention
Detention (imprisonment)

Detention is the process when a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing his or her freedom of liberty at that time. This can be due to (pending) criminal charges being raised against the individual as part of a prosecution or to protect a person or property. Being detained does not always result in being taken to a particular area (generally called a detention centre), either for interrogation, or as punishment for a crime (see prison).

The term can also be used in reference to the holding of property, for the same reasons. The process of detainment may or may not have been preceded or followed with an arrest. The prisoners in Guantánamo Bay are for example referred to as "detainees".

Detainee is a term used by certain governments and their armed forces to refer to individuals held in custody, such as those it does not classify and treat as either prisoners of war or suspects in criminal cases. It is used to refer to "any person captured or otherwise detained by an armed force." More generally, it is "someone held in custody."

Article 9 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile." In wars between nations, detainees are referenced in the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Detention (2003 film)

Detention is a 2003 action film directed by Sidney J. Furie. It stars Dolph Lundgren as a soon to be retired high school teacher Sam Decker who has one last detention to proctor and Alex Karzis as Chester Lamb. Unfortunately, drug runners have chosen to attack the school. Sam must band together the trouble makers and misfits in detention to defeat the criminals and stay alive.

Detention (TV series)

Detention is an American television series that premiered on Kids' WB on September 11, 1999 and was created by Bob Doucette. The TV series is about a group of eight troubled students from Benedict Arnold Middle School who continually find themselves in detention.

The kids are constantly trying to stay out of detention and out of trouble.

Detention (2011 film)

Detention is a 2011 American satirical horror film directed by Joseph Kahn, and co-written with Mark Palermo. The film premiered March 2011 in Austin, Texas at SXSW. Detention stars Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Spencer Locke, Shanley Caswell, Walter Perez, Organik and Erica Shaffer. Produced by Richard Weager and MaryAnne Tanedo.

Detention (2010 film)

Detention is a 2010 horror film starring David Carradine.

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Usage examples of "detention".

According to both Amnesty International and the Muslim Brotherhood, groups of prisoners suspected of anti-government sentiments were taken from detention camps, machine-gunned en masse, and then dumped into pre-dug pits that were covered with earth and left unmarked.

Her former neighbor was still in a detention home for elderly offenders, undergoing psychological assessment to determine if he was fit to stand trial for his part in those long-ago deaths of Maggie Birk and his own newborn grandchild.

Henry Clift, suggested the coal cellar as a suitable place of detention.

Alton is endangering his life, or materially impairing his health, I wish it mitigated as far as it can be consistently with his safe detention.

Tammy was probably asking herself that very question, sitting in orbital detention light years from Eugene, while Derek drank warm tangy saki with a semi-nude mammalogist curled in his lap.

Jenny Psycho, a prisoner in Silo Nine, the Imperial detention and torture center also known as Wormboy Hell, the Mater Mundi had created a mental link between Jenny and Finlay Campbell and Evangeline Shreck.

Then with no less haste he seized Colonel Papillon by the arm and hurried him by the back passages through the office into the outer, public chamber, where the astonished crowd stood, silent and perturbed, awaiting explanation of their detention.

Jimmy Ramirez, had broken Trent the Uncatchable out of the PKF Detention Center in the center of Capitol City.

Madame Wisk, the head housekeeper had been quite adamant that she and the other girls receiving detention did the job right.

If Ballenger stayed outside, an anonymous call to the police might then result in his detention for questioning and lead to the court sending him to the sanctuary the state provided for such disturbed people.

A Marylander himself and the author of the Dred Scott decision, Taney issued a writ of habeas corpus for Merryman, demanding that the authorities give a reason for his detention.

As this detention was occasioned by an obvious misapprehension of the facts, and as justice requires that we should commit no belligerent act not founded in strict right as sanctioned by public law, I recommend that an appropriation be made to satisfy the reasonable demand of the owners of the vessel for her detention.

Waiting for one of us to misbehave so that they could send us to detention.

And, to avoid misconstruction, the last clause of the fifth section of said Act, which authorizes the person holding a warrant for the arrest or detention of a Fugitive Slave to summon to his aid the posse comitatus, and which declares it to be the duty of all good citizens to assist him in its execution, ought to be so amended as to expressly limit the authority and duty to cases in which there shall be resistance, or danger of resistance or rescue.

Miss Overmore had often said to her in reference to any fear that her mother might resent her prolonged detention.