PRISON

Meaning of PRISON in English

noun

BAD : Sending people to the prison is not the way to reduce crime.

GOOD : Sending people to prison is not the way to reduce crime.

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PRISON
Английский словарь Британика
PRISON — I. ˈpriz ə n noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English prison, prisoun, prisun, from Old French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRISON — — prisonlike , adj. /priz"euhn/ , n. 1. a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — vt to bind (together); to enchain. 2. prison ·noun specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals …
Webster English vocab
PRISON — prison BrE AmE ˈprɪz ə n ▷ prison|s z ▶ ˈ prison camp BrE AmE ▶ ˌ prison ˈ visitor …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
PRISON — / ˈprɪzn; NAmE / noun 1. [ C , U ] a building where people are kept as a punishment …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRISON — pris ‧ on S2 W2 /ˈprɪz ə n/ BrE AmE noun [ Word Family: noun : ↑ prison , ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PRISON — n. & v. --n. 1 a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
PRISON — n. & v. n. 1 a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
PRISON — n. & v. --n. 1. a place in which a person is kept in captivity, esp. a building to which …
Oxford English vocab
PRISON — ( prisons) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A prison is a building …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PRISON
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PRISON — [noun] - a building where criminals are forced to live as a punishmentConditions in the prison are said to be …
Cambridge English vocab
PRISON
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PRISON — Synonyms and related words : POW camp, bastille, big house, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, calaboose, can, cell, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRISON — I. prison noun Synonyms: jail , ||can, cooler, ||hoosegow, keep, lockup, pen, penitentiary, reformatory, stockade II. ||prison verb Synonyms: imprison …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRISON — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ local ▪ federal ▪ overcrowded ▪ high-security ( esp. BrE ), maximum-security ( esp. AmE ), supermax …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
PRISON — INDEX: 1. a place where people are kept as punishment 2. to put someone in prison as a punishment 3. …
Longman Activator English vocab
PRISON — See ↑ PRISON 1 ◆◆◆ • ↑ be in prison/jail • ↑ put sb in prison/jail
Longman Activator English vocab
PRISON — See: For imprisonment as a punishment, see Punishments It is plain that in Egypt special places were used as prisons, …
Smith's Bible English Dictionary
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison ≈ освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — prison.ogg 1. ʹprız(ə)n n 1> тюрьма prison sentence - тюремное заключение, тюремный срок prison clothes - арестантская одежда prison camp …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PRISON — prison сущ.тюрьма, темница to be released from prison — освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape from …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PRISON — 1. ʹprız(ə)n n 1) тюрьма prison sentence - тюремное заключение, тюремный срок prison clothes - арестантская одежда prison camp - …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison — освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison — освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape from prison — …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
PRISON — 1. _n. 1> тюрьма 2> _attr. тюремный; prison hospital - тюремная больница; prison camp - лагерь военнопленных 2. _v. 1> …
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
PRISON — сущ. тюрьма (долгосрочного заключения) city prison — городская тюрьма convict prison — тюрьма для осужденных преступников female prison — женская тюрьма male prison — мужская …
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике
PRISON — тюрьма (долгосрочного заключения) to land in prison — водворять в тюрьму - adult prison - cellular prison - central training prison - city prison - closed …
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
PRISON — 1. сущ. тюрьма, темница to be released from prison ≈ освободиться из тюрьмы to break out of prison, to escape …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — prison (-ari, -ario), cárcere
English interlingue dictionary
PRISON — bilanggoan
English-Visayan vocabulary
PRISON — I. noun see: get Date: 12th century a state of confinement or captivity, a place of confinement especially for lawbreakers, …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PRISON — (v. t.) To bind (together); to enchain.
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — (v. t.) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — (n.) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ confinement, restraint, …
Английский словарь Webster
PRISON — ( v. t. ) To imprison; to shut up in, or as in, a prison; to confine; to restrain from …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — ( v. t. ) To bind (together); to enchain.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — ( n. ) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — ( n. ) A place where persons are confined, or restrained of personal liberty; hence, a place or state o/ …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRISON — n. jail, penitentiary, location where convicted criminals and people awaiting trial are confined
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PRISON — v. imprison, put in prison, incarcerate, jail, detain
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PRISON — I. ˈpri-z ə n noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, from prehendere to …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PRISON — n. Function: transitive verb Date: 14th century : IMPRISON , CONFINE
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PRISON — n. Pronunciation: ' pri-z ə n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PRISON — ■ noun a building for the confinement of criminals or those awaiting trial. ■ verb ( ~s , ~ing , …
Concise Oxford English vocab
PRISON — [pris.on] n [ME, fr. OF, fr. L prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, fr. prehendere to seize--more at get] (12c) 1: …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PRISON — an institution for the confinement of persons convicted of major crimes or felonies. In the 19th and 20th centuries, imprisonment …
Britannica English vocabulary
PRISON — (~s) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. A ~ is a building where …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
PRISON — n. Function: verb Synonyms: IMPRISON , bastille, confine, constrain, immure, incarcerate, intern, jail, jug, ||quod
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PRISON — n. Function: noun Synonyms: JAIL , ||can, cooler, ||hoosegow, keep, lockup, pen, penitentiary, reformatory, stockade
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
PRISON — n. Jail, gaol, penitentiary, bridewell, workhouse, house of correction.
Dictionary of English Synonyms
PRISON — noun
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
PRISON — n. 25B6; noun JAIL, lock-up, penal institution, detention centre; Brit. young offender institution; N. Amer. jailhouse, penitentiary, correctional facility; informal …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
PRISON — n. 1) to go, be sent, be sentenced to ~ 2) to spend time in ~ 3) to be released …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
PRISON — n. jail or Brit also gaol, dungeon, oubliette, lock-up, penal institution, house of correction, correctional institution, reformatory, house of detention; …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
PRISON — cweartern, carcern
Англо-Староанглийский словарь
PRISON — Тюрьма
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
PRISON — тюрьма incarceration in prison or camp — лишение свободы
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
PRISON — (n) тюрьма
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
PRISON — 1. [ʹprız(ə)n] n 1) тюрьма ~ sentence - тюремное заключение, тюремный срок ~ clothes - арестантская одежда ~ camp - …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
PRISON — n. тюрьма, острог
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
PRISON — n. тюрьма, острог
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release

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