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borstal training

borstal training noun: the sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.

Noun

borstal training (uncountable)

  1. (UK, historical) The sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.
    • The court could sentence them to 'Borstal training', which meant that they were detained in a Borstal institution for an indeterminate period of between six months and two years.1989, Richard Meredith Jackson, J. R. Spencer, Jackson's Machinery of Justice, page 277

Questions about borstal training

What does borstal training mean?
Borstal training means the sentencing of young offenders to a special prison.
What part of speech is borstal training?
Borstal training is a noun.

Words near borstal training in the dictionary

  1. Borski
  2. Borskis
  3. Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén
  4. Borst
  5. borstal
  6. borstal training
  7. Borstalian
  8. Borstalians
  9. borstall
  10. borstalls
  11. borstals

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