Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of detaining; detention.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Detention.

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  • noun The condition of being detained; detention

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

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Examples

  • Maybe if we just round up all people with political beliefs contrary to Obama's, put them in detainment camps, then we wouldn't need airport screenings.

    Discourse.net: Post-Travel Thought 2009

  • Joking aside, the issue of torture and detainment is a serious one.

    duh pookie 2009

  • He told the Senate committee that some terrorism detainees were too “dangerous” to prosecute and may have to be “held in detainment for a long time.”

    We Need A Resolution | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Joking aside, the issue of torture and detainment is a serious one.

    duh pookie 2009

  • Interim "black sites" - secret facilities used for covert activities - can be as small as a room in a government building, which only becomes a black site when a prisoner is brought in for short-term detainment and interrogation.

    Larisa Alexandrovna: And War Crimes for All.... 2008

  • Interim “black sites” – secret facilities used for covert activities – can be as small as a room in a government building, which only becomes a black site when a prisoner is brought in for short-term detainment and interrogation.

    Soviet-era compound in northern Poland was site of secret CIA interrogation, detentions 2007

  • They should have demanded that he be remanded into Canadian custody at the time of his "detainment" by the sinister maniacs of the Bush League.

    Stephen Taylor! Hacktacular! CC 2009

  • The difference is that BushCo labels the people they kidnap as terrorists and calls the kidnapping "detainment".

    Underneath The "Surge" Strategy 2007

  • COOPER: And what kind of detainment powers or legal authority does the CDC have?

    CNN Transcript May 30, 2007 2007

  • Until then, the best you can ever do is to lawyer up on the moment of your "detainment" even if they say you are not under arrest.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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