Incarceration

  • 11incarceration — noun eight years of incarceration Syn: imprisonment, internment, confinement, detention, custody, captivity, restraint; informal time; archaic durance, duress …

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  • 12incarceration — incarcerate ► VERB ▪ imprison or confine. DERIVATIVES incarceration noun. ORIGIN Latin incarcerare, from carcer prison …

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  • 13incarceration — noun the state of being imprisoned he was held in captivity until he died the imprisonment of captured soldiers his ignominious incarceration in the local jail he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon • Syn: ↑captivity,… …

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  • 14incarceration facility — index prison Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 15Incarceration in the United States — [ [http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/ppus06.pdf Probation and Parole in the United States, 2006] . By Lauren E. Glaze and Thomas P. Bonczar. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Department of Justice.] [… …

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  • 16Incarceration facility (Israel) — An incarceration facility ( he. מתקן כליאה, Mitkan Kli a ) is the official name given by the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Prison Service to one of several prisons in Israel used to hold Palestinian prisoners either under sentence or under …

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  • 17incarceration — noun see incarcerate …

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  • 18incarceration — See incarcerate. * * * …

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  • 19incarceration — noun a) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. b) Formerly, strangulation, as in hernia. See Also: incarcerate …

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  • 20incarceration — in·car·cer·a·tion in .kär sə rā shən n 1) a confining or state of being confined 2) abnormal retention or confinement of a body part specif a constriction of the neck of a hernial sac so that the hernial contents become irreducible * * *… …

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