verb [VN]
1 to keep sb in an official place, such as a police station, a prison or a hospital, and prevent them from leaving:
One man has been detained for questioning.
2 (formal) to delay sb or prevent them from going somewhere:
I'm sorry-he'll be late; he's been detained at a meeting.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for detain is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does detain appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — detain appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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