detention

Noun

Meaning

The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

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

Confinement; restraint; custody.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

custody detainment hold holding arrest imprisonment confinement restraint incarceration jailing brig penitentiary mitt nab correctional
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Antonyms

amendment liberty deliverance amnesty hand release
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Hypernyms

penalty punishment confinement penalisation penalization

Related terms

detain

Phrases with the word

Detention Center in detention detention facility forcible detention detention reservoir detention institutions

Examples

The worst that happened to men of science was that Galileo suffered an honorable detention and a mild reproof, before dying peacefully in his bed. Alfred North Whitehead

To defeat evil, we may have to traffic in evils: indefinite detention of suspects, coercive interrogations, targeted assassinations, even pre-emptive war. Michael Ignatieff

...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing. Dana Perino

we should make clear (the) difference between freedom fighters and the terrorists. They Taliban are not terrorists. They are freedom fighters. Their detention is all illegal and it is all just to please America. Abdul Rashid Ghazi

The metropolis today is a classroom; the ads are its teachers. The traditional classroom is an obsolete detention home, a feudal dungeon. Marshall McLuhan

Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they don't have to obey their own laws. Ai Weiwei

Close letter words and terms

detension detent detente detention basin detention box detention camp