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detainee
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n. someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement
WordNet
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n. some held in custody [syn: political detainee ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE political ▪ Rangoon-based diplomats were reported as saying that the number of political detainees was much higher than the official figure. ▪ The prison's 1,300 inmates - many of them political detainees - were ...
Usage examples of detainee.
We arranged for the truck loaded with contraband, driven by a Matabele -detainee we had bribed, to be waiting for him on the Tuti road.
The Roamers themselves kept a few EDF detainees, whom they had rescued from the recent battle in the rings of Osquivel.
She was in the junior common room with her bellringers and, apparently, the still unassigned detainees.
November 11, the Yemenis provided the FBI with new information from the interrogations of Badawi and Quso, including descriptions of individuals from whom the detainees had received operational direction.
There was a small adjoining paradise with roses and nightingales, and a few of the earlier detainees were taking advantage of this chance to stretch their legs.
Toa-Sytcll himself had looked over the detainees, and Caine was not among them.
We will go down and watch the detainees being given the evening meaU The deutinees-lined up in utter silence, shuffling forward to be 1 77 fed.
They ate with the Shona officers in the mess, and the fare was the same as that served to detainees with the addition of a stew of stringy meat of indeterminate origin and dubious freshness.
And five days later, a convoy of army trucks arrived carrying two hundred detainees from the rehabilitation centres.
On the other hand, they are not extermination camps let us rather say that they are equivalent to the detention barracks of the British army-" Craig could not help but be impressed by Peter Fungabera's honesty you are free to speak to any of the detainees, but I must ask you not to go wandering off into the bush on your own that applies to you especially, Sally-Anne," Peter smiled at her.
He hoped that the bellringers and detainees had breakfasted early and gone back to their assigned rooms, but it was a fond hope.
Hehad a point, but the thing could just as easily be turned theother way round: it was easier to play with thoughts andideas when I was roaming at will on the Hardanger plateauthan pacing about hour after hour between four walls, likesome dormitory town detainee.
The NYPD had all the detainees corralled outside of Saks Fifth Avenue, and they weren’t letting anyone go until they’d been debriefed by one of four detectives sitting at a row of folding tables set up on the sidewalk.
From the woods east of the Swanny Pond Road came the pop-pop-pop of rifle fire, heavy at first, then diminishing a little in both frequency and volume as the Imperial Valleys (Kate Gallagher's Imperial Valleys now) pursued the escaped detainees.