Definition of Inmates

1. Noun. (plural of inmate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Inmates

1. inmate [n] - See also: inmate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inmates

inlock
inlocked
inlocking
inlocks
inlook
inlooks
inlumine
inlumined
inlumining
inly
inmacy
inmarriage
inmarry
inmate
inmates (current term)
inmeat
inmeats
inmesh
inmeshed
inmeshes
inmeshing
inmew
inmid
inmiddes
inmigrant
inmigrants
inmigration
inmigrations

Literary usage of Inmates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"38 houses, with 486 inmates. Collectively their funds at this time amounted to a capital of ... with 63 inmates; 7 of Reformed Franciscans, with 72 inmates; ..."

2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"... for Prisoners," and more particularly to discuss the question "Can Prisons Be Made Self-supporting and inmates Be Paid Adequate Wages at the Same Time ? ..."

3. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"After these dependents arrive in the institutions as inmates they are assigned to the hospital wards, the wards for the infirm and crippled, ..."

4. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1912)
"Little Effort to Reform inmates.—The inmates are taught no trade except in the shoe factory; and as this training prepares them only for factory work, ..."

5. The Secularization of American Education: As Shown by State Legislation by Samuel Windsor Brown (1912)
"But in the case of orphans and the inmates of industrial schools, reform schools, ... The problem is further intensified by the fact that the inmates of the ..."

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