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View synonyms for detention center
detention center
[ dih-ten-shuhn sen-ter ]
noun
- a facility maintained by the civil authorities for persons charged with a crime, immigrants awaiting deportation rulings, or sometimes witnesses before a trial.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of detention center1
First recorded in 1945–50
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Example Sentences
Her eldest son, an 18-year-old, is being held separately as an adult in a detention center.
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The judges were not given a per capita fee for each child sentenced to the detention center.
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In Camp X-Ray, she plays Amy Cole, a newly enlisted guard at Guantanamo Bay detention center.
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Couch was not sentenced to an iota of time in a juvenile detention center or prison.
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But if Joe knows a corrupt clerk at the Metropolitan Detention Center he can confirm that the associate was actually there.
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