DETAIN


Meaning of DETAIN in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

arrest/detain a suspect

Detectives arrested the suspect after a five-day undercover operation.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

charge

The police now have up to ninety-six hours, i.e. four days and nights, to detain people without charge .

After her husband's life sentence, Mrs Sisulu, 68, was detained without charge twice.

In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons.

Nearly all the political prisoners are detained without charges and never brought to trial.

Since 1970 hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses have been detained without charge or trial for up to five years.

By 1984, it had crystallized into a firm time control on the police power to detain without charge .

hospital

Her husband, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, was detained in hospital and sedated pending geriatric assessment.

Twenty-four passengers were still being detained in two Dublin hospitals last night with fractures, and one with spinal injuries.

Five were detained in hospital , including two fascists, and one doctor saw between fifty and seventy victims.

Only four people - two policemen and two civilians - were detained in hospital .

All are detained in Darlington Memorial Hospital .

A person can be detained in hospital for treatment on health grounds under section three of the Mental Health Act.

Psychiatric reports were eventually obtained and recommended that he should be detained in hospital for treatment, not in prison.

Wardens, Suninder Gogner and Christine Hoy-Taylor, were detained overnight in hospital and their condition yesterday was comfortable.

people

It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation.

A van full of immigrants arrived early this afternoon, the first people to be detained at the centre.

A further 57 people were detained bringing the number interviewed to more than 1,000 since Operation Bumblebee began in January.

Returnees were among 40 people detained in Muyinga province, in the northeast.

Up to 8,000 people would be detained under the Tory crackdown, she claimed.

Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law, some for more than eight years.

Most of the defendants were among 21 people detained by police as they left the conference.

person

The constable must not be exceeding his authority, such as detaining a person without a power of arrest.

police

As an immediate response to the killing the police detained more than 200 people in the Zawiya al-Hamra district of Cairo.

His body was found in the sports complex where police had taken those detained .

The police detained Akaluka for his own protection.

State officials said the visiting police helped state agents detain 12 people and recuperate 12 stolen cars.

In another move to silence criticism, police on Thursday detained the paper's editor, Rudolf Zeman.

His threat came after the former head of the secret police was detained in Belgrade.

Su picked out eight or nine men, and the police detained them.

One of the men had even helped to shift bales of hay before police arrived and detained the pair.

trial

It also said that 1,751 people had been detained without trial due to their political affiliation.

In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons.

Since 1970 hundreds of Jehovah's Witnesses have been detained without charge or trial for up to five years.

He was previously detained without trial from September 1989 until April 1990 when he was released uncharged.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I won't detain you for much longer, Miss Reid. There are just a few more questions that I need to ask you.

Mr Jones should be here, but I'm afraid he's been unavoidably detained.

Mrs. Flanagan was detained in Washington on urgent business.

Police detained two suspects for questioning.

The police are now allowed to detain terrorist suspects for as long as a week.

Three men from the ship have been detained for questioning by the Harbour Authorities.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All are detained in Darlington Memorial Hospital.

George had a tendency to be detained or shot at for sketching coastal installations in strategic areas.

His body was found in the sports complex where police had taken those detained.

Since 1981 hundreds of people have been detained under this law, some for more than eight years.

The officer later detained the man after a struggle, but needed ten stitches to the wound.

When Stephen reaches Winchester safely, the Earl of Gloucester will be released and his son detained.

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