Noun
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 dictionaryThe 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