| 单词 | prison house |
| 释义 | prison house (once / 32206 pages) n WORD FAMILY prison house: prison houses USAGE EXAMPLESThe 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 Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper 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, chokyBritish slang (dated) for a prison nick(British slang) a prison panopticona circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791 state prisona 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 Syn|Hyper prison situation, state of affairs the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time |
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