| 单词 | preventive detention |
| 释义 | preventive detentionWord family nounpreventabilitypreventerpreventionpreventivenesspreventive detentionadjectivepreventableadverbpreventivelyverbprevent Jail & punishment preˌventive deˈtention noun [uncountableU] British EnglishBrE lawSCJ a system in which people who are guilty of many crimes are kept in prison for a long time 〔对于惯犯的〕预防性拘留 Examples from the Corpus preventive detention• Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties.• Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention, it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism. |
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