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Definitions
The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.
Word origin
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman detener, from Old French detenir. By surface analysis, detain + -er (action noun suffix). First attested in the 17th century.
Used in a sentence
“On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case.”
“Officer Torres’s lawyer, Paul S. Missan, said on Saturday that he had been told by a prison official in Pennsylvania that a detainer was lodged against his client, meaning he was likely to face federal charges.”
“[…] he chatted gaily with his fair detainer, showing no inclination to escape from the bondage in which she sought to retain him.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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