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{
"term": "detention",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the state of being kept in a place, especially a prison, and prevented from leaving",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution."
},
{
"text": "police powers of arrest and detention"
},
{
"text": "allegations of torture and detention without trial"
},
{
"text": "Prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions."
},
{
"text": "a detention camp"
},
{
"text": "He made the confession while under detention."
},
{
"text": "They were held in detention from 2011 to 2021."
},
{
"text": "If found guilty of smuggling drugs, she could face indefinite detention."
},
{
"text": "Lawyers argued that she should be allowed to serve her detention in her home country."
},
{
"text": "Opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention, torture and execution."
},
{
"text": "She spent 18 years in detention."
},
{
"text": "Suspects were placed in preventive detention."
},
{
"text": "The judge will fix the period of detention."
}
],
"topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["arbitrary", "pretrial", "indefinite"],
"verb + detention": ["be in", "remain in", "hold somebody in"],
"detention + noun": ["camp", "centre/center", "facility"],
"preposition": ["in detention", "under detention"],
"phrases": ["a period of detention", "a term of detention"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the punishment of being kept at school for a time after other students have gone home",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "They can’t give me (a) detention for this."
},
{
"text": "Persistent latecomers will be given detention."
},
{
"text": "My first day of school, and I have detention."
}
],
"topics": ["Education"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["arbitrary", "pretrial", "indefinite"],
"verb + detention": ["be in", "remain in", "hold somebody in"],
"detention + noun": ["camp", "centre/center", "facility"],
"preposition": ["in detention", "under detention"],
"phrases": ["a period of detention", "a term of detention"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈtenʃn/",
"audio": "de/detention/detention__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/dɪˈtenʃn/",
"audio": "de/detention/detention__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘withholding of what is claimed or due’): from late Latin detentio(n-), from Latin detinere ‘hold back’, from de- ‘away, aside’ + tenere ‘to hold’."
}