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custody
(redirected from detainment)

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custody
1. the act of keeping safe or guarding, esp the right of guardianship of a minor
2. the state of being held by the police; arrest (esp in the phrases in custody, take into custody)


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Both Rumsfeld and Kissinger have been known to contact foreign states to make sure they wouldn't be detained during a visit; detainment, and what it stands for, could prey on their minds.
In other cases, lengthy detainment of innocents abetted the enemy's recruitment efforts.
26) Detainment of goods as a surety for good behavior was a common tool imposed by the manorial courts to maintain order in the community.
 
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