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单词 prison house
释义
prison house
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n

WORD FAMILY
prison house: prison houses
USAGE EXAMPLES
The prison houses more than 3,000 inmates against a capacity of 1,400.
BBC(Nov 29, 2016)
It says the Atteridgeville prison houses offenders serving up to six years in prison, and has rehabilitation and development programs for inmates.
Seattle Times(Nov 14, 2016)
Located in southwest Alabama, the maximum-security prison houses the state execution chamber and has been the site of multiple outbreaks of violence.
Seattle Times(Oct 04, 2016)
1n a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
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prison
Newgate
a former prison in London notorious for its unsanitary conditions and burnt down in riots in 1780; a new prison was built on the same spot but was torn down in 1902
bastille
a jail or prison (especially one that is run in a tyrannical manner)
chokey, choky
British slang (dated) for a prison
nick
(British slang) a prison
panopticon
a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
state prison
a prison maintained by a state of the U.S.
correctional institution
a penal institution maintained by the government
2n a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
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prison
situation, state of affairs
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
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