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Detainee

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Noun

1. detainee, political detainee

some held in custody

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Detainee

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noun
a person held in custody, usually for political reasons

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Detainee

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n.
A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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