Jail
WordNet
noun
(1) A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
(2) Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
"The suspects were imprisoned without trial"
"The murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
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Etymology
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Noun
- A prison; a place of detention; a place where a person convicted or suspected of a crime is detained.
- Confinement in a jail.
- school
- I have to go to jail for 5 days per week.
- The requirements that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for (usually) 30 days.