transcription, транскрипция: [ dʒeɪl ]
( jails, jailing, jailed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: in BRIT, also use 'gaol'
1.
A jail is a place where criminals are kept in order to punish them, or where people waiting to be tried are kept.
Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
= prison
N-VAR
2.
If someone is jailed , they are put into jail.
He was jailed for twenty years.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed