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prison
[ priz-uhn ]
noun
- a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- any place of confinement or involuntary restraint.
prison
/ ˈɪə /
noun
- a public building used to house convicted criminals and accused persons remanded in custody and awaiting trial See also jail penitentiary reformatory
- any place of confinement or seeming confinement
Other Word Forms
- o· adjective
- Dz·o adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of prison1
Word History and Origins
Origin of prison1
Example Sentences
The most recent deal collapsed in 2022, after the disclosure of an FBI corruption investigation into former mayor Harry Sidhu, who was sentenced in March to two months in federal prison.
I remember you said specifically, talking about how she was treated, that it seemed like a prison.
Wilson was placed in restricted housing while the prison and the L.A.
The organization confirmed the false test results through a series of public records requests, which showed positive test results suddenly spiked across California prisons between April and July last year.
They were released on Tuesday because the fact they had been in prison since their arrests in 2021 was taken into account when calculating their sentence.
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