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DETAINEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does detainee mean?
• DETAINEE (noun)
The noun DETAINEE has 1 sense:
1. some held in custody
Familiarity information: DETAINEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Some held in custody
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
detainee; political detainee
Hypernyms ("detainee" is a kind of...):
captive; prisoner (a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war)
Derivation:
detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
Context examples
Where, for the first time in many revolving years, the overwhelming pressure of pecuniary liabilities was not proclaimed, from day to day, by importune voices declining to vacate the passage; where there was no knocker on the door for any creditor to appeal to; where personal service of process was not required, and detainees were merely lodged at the gate!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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