remanded

American  

[ri-man-did] / rɪˈmæn dɪd /

adjective

1. sent back or consigned again, as for revision.

   A remanded proposal that fails to achieve a 60% majority of votes when reconsidered shall be removed from further consideration.

2. Law.

   1. relating to or being a case sent back to a lower court from which it was appealed.

      We trust that the facts of the parties' relationship will become clearer during the remanded hearing.

   2. (of a prisoner or accused person) sent back into custody, as to await further proceedings.

      A remanded person awaiting trial at the city’s central prison has complained of overcrowding and poor sanitation.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of remand.

Other Word Forms

• unremanded
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of remanded

remand ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Both were found at hospital before being remanded in custody to await trial.

From BBC • May 16, 2026

Love was remanded in custody and the court was told a sentencing hearing would likely take place in September.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

Mahad Mohammed, 19, and two 17-year-old boys who cannot be named because of their age, appeared at Coventry Magistrates' Court last month and have been remanded in custody.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Millar was remanded in custody until his sentencing.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

He was led away to be locked in Martin’s museum—in what used to be the sacristy and was now the island’s makeshift jail cell—until he could be remanded to police on the mainland.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Related Words

• delayed
• negotiated
• postponed