| 单词 | preventive detention |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspreventive detention preventive detention n. the detention of a known or suspected criminal or political dissident in order to prevent further crime, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [noun] > as precautionary measure preventive detention1858 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun] > custody > type of free keeping1483 free ward1538 bail1581 preventive detention1858 preventive custody1897 P.D.1956 1858 Times 18 Feb. 9/4 The Government has the right to throw them into prison, and to leave them there whole months under preventive detention. 1959 Listener 16 Apr. 674/1 Southern Rhodesian Government publishes a new preventive detention bill. 1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 112 Two days later university students demonstrated outside the palatial mansion of the President for the release of Professor Okola from preventive detention. < as lemmas |
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