(BrE also gaol) noun, verb
noun [U,C] a prison:
She spent a year in jail. * He has been released from jail. * a ten-year jail sentence * Britain's overcrowded jails -< SCHOOL
verb [VN] [usuallypassive] ~ sb (for sth) to put sb in prison:
He was jailed for life for murder.
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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 jail is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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