detainee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++de·tain·ee /ˌdiːteɪˈniː/ noun [countable] formal SCJKEEP somebody IN A PLACEsomeone who is officially kept in a prison, usually because of their political views 〔通常由于所持政治观点〕被拘留者
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detainee• All 641 detainees at Bourdj Omar Driss were released by June 8.• The government has ordered the trial of all detainees within six months.• Torture is still being used to intimidate detainees.• Rather than inciting its detainees to try and get out, Le Portalet probably taunted them with the impossibility of such a thing.• According to a recent report, many detainees claim that police have mistreated them.• Rangoon-based diplomats were reported as saying that the number of political detainees was much higher than the official figure.• The prison's 1,300 inmates - many of them political detainees - were reported to have been released.• The detainees have been turned over to the federal attorney general's office and couldn't be reached for comment.• Women detainees often get inadequate medical care.• Women detainees are particularly vulnerable to having their needs ignored.de·tain·ee nounChineseSyllable
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detainee
de‧tain‧ee /ˌdiːteɪˈniː/
noun [countable] formal
someone who is officially kept in a prison, usually because of their political views
▪ prisoner someone who is kept in a prison as a punishment for a crime, or while they are waiting for their trial: Prisoners may be locked in their cells for twenty-two hours a day. | a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder
▪convict especially written someone who has been found guilty of a crime and sent to a prison. Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions, or in the phrase an escaped convict: The convicts were sent from England to Australia. | Police were hunting for an escaped convict. | Low-risk convicts help to fight forest fires and clean up public lands.
▪inmate someone who is kept in a prison or a mental hospital: Some inmates are allowed to have special privileges. | He was described by a fellow inmate as a quiet man.
▪captive especially literary someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting. Captive is a rather formal word which is used especially in literature: Their objective was to disarm the enemy and release the captives. | She was held captive (=kept as a prisoner) in the jungle for over three years.
▪prisoner of war a soldier, member of the navy etc who is caught by the enemy during a war and kept in the enemy’s country: My grandad was a prisoner of war in Germany. | They agreed to release two Iranian prisoners of war.
▪hostage someone who is kept somewhere as a prisoner, in order to force people to agree to do something, for example in order to get money or to achive a political aim: Diplomats are continuing their efforts to secure the release of the hostages. | The US hostages were held in Tehran for over a year.
▪detainee/internee someone who is kept in a prison, usually because of their political views and often without a trial: In some cases, political detainees have been beaten or mistreated. | 23,531 people passed through the camps between 1944 and 1962, including 14,647 political internees. | the detainees at Guantanamo Bay
de‧tain‧ee /ˌdiːteɪˈniː/
noun [countable] formalsomeone who is officially kept in a prison, usually because of their political views
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