detainee

[ dih-tey-nee, dee-tey-nee ]

/ dɪˈteɪ ni, ˌdi teɪˈni /

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noun

a person held in custody, especially for a political offense or for questioning.

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How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

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Origin of detainee

First recorded in 1925–30; detain + -ee

Words nearby detainee

detail drawing, detailed, detailer, detailing, detain, detainee, detainer, detect, detection, detective, detector

Example sentences from the Web for detainee

In November 2002, a detainee who had been held partially nude and chained to the floor died, apparently from hypothermia.
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’|Shane Harris, Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
During one session, detainee Abu Zubaydah became “completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open full mouth.”
The Most Gruesome Moments in the CIA ‘Torture Report’|Shane Harris, Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One detainee was bent over for a rectal feeding that involved Ensure, the protein shake.
Inside the CIA’s Sadistic Dungeon|Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In one case a detainee was dragged naked along the dirt floor.
Inside the CIA’s Sadistic Dungeon|Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

It no longer looks at whether a detainee is affiliated with al Qaeda.
A Navy Lawyer Cries Foul on Gitmo’s Kafkaesque Legal System|Eleanor Clift|September 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whether this object has been attained or not is judged by the life and habits of the detainee on discharge.
The Vagrancy Problem.|William Harbutt Dawson