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jail
[ jeyl ]
noun
- a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
verb (used with object)
- to take into or hold in lawful custody; imprison.
jail
/ dʒeɪl /
noun
- a place for the confinement of persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment or of persons awaiting trial to whom bail is not granted
- get out of jail or get out of jail free informal.to get out of a difficult situation
verb
- tr to confine in prison
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Derived Forms
- ˈjailless, adjective
- ˈjail-like, adjective
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Other Words From
- jaila·ble adjective
- jailless adjective
- jaillike adjective
- non·jaila·ble adjective
- re·jail verb (used with object)
- un·jailed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jail1
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Example Sentences
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
Violators face up to nine months in jail or as much as $10,000 in fines.
There are millions of stories that end with black boys in jail cells.
Brinsley got out of jail last July, and was desperate and aimless.
Some of them, including Kurnosova, escaped the country as they faced a possible jail term for their opposition activity.
Why have I never heard until the day before yesterday of your suffering yourself to be cooped up in jail?
They say that if he gets a judgment against you, Elder, he will put you in jail, and all that; but of course that couldn't be.
Casey was arrested and conveyed to jail under great popular excitement.
For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside.
On the Mabolo road there is a Leper Hospital, and the ruins of a partly well-built jail which was never completed.
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