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Definition of Detention

1. Noun. A state of being confined (usually for a short time). "He is in the custody of police"

2. Noun. A punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home. "The detention of tardy pupils"

Definition of Detention

1. n. The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Definition of Detention

1. Noun. The act of detaining or the state of being detained. ¹

2. Noun. A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of a student being punished. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Detention

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detention

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Literary usage of Detention

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

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"The plea therefore is altogether indefinite as to the period of detention ; and the proof of any detention, even fur a single moment, after the return, ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Detinue <g=>7,22—Formal demand not necessary except to convert lawful possession into unlawful detention; whether demand made held for jury. ..."

3. Prison Conditions in Japan by Joanna Weschler (1995)
"POLICE Detention Under the Japanese Code of Criminal Procedure, a suspect apprehended by police must be brought before a judge within seventy-two hours of ..."

4. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1892)
"In a former report to the Conference by a committee of which the writer was chairman, the subject of the commitment and detention of the insane was ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall (1900)
"Unlawfulness of Detention. To constitute a false imprisonment, the detention must be unlawful. In other words, it must be without sufficient lawful author- ..."

6. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1901)
"It seems difficult to base a distinction on the Idea that if the wrongful detention originated with deceased the action rests on his tort, ..."

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