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Jail

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Noun

1. clink, gaol, jail, jailhouse, pokey, poky, slammer

a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

Verb

2. gaol, immure, imprison, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand

lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

Example Sentences:
'The suspects were imprisoned without trial'
'the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Jail

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noun
1. 
a place for the confinement of persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment or of persons awaiting trial to whom bail is not granted
2.  get out of jail
verb
3. (transitive)
to confine in prison

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Jail

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noun
1. 
a building for the confinement of people who are awaiting trial or who have been convicted of minor offenses
2. 
imprisonment
verb transitive
3. 
to put or keep in or as in jail

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

Jail

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n.
1. A place of detention, especially for persons who are accused of committing a crime and have not been released on bail or for persons who are serving short sentences after conviction of a misdemeanor.
2. Detention in a jail.
tr.v. jailed, jail·ing, jails
To detain in a jail.

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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