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detention Definition


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detention
noun
    1. The act of detaining or the state of being detained, especially in prison or police custody.
      Thesaurus: imprisonment, incarceration, house arrest, restraint, confinement, duress, constraint; Antonym: release.
    2. A punishment in which a pupil is kept in school to work after the other pupils have gone home.
Etymology: 15c in sense 1; 19c in sense 2; from Latin detinere, detentum to detain.



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