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CECOT

CECOT is the alternative letter-case form of Cecot.

Proper noun capitalized: Cecot

Cecot

  1. The Terrorism Confinement Center; a large maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
    • But the ruthless cleaning up of those streets and merciless treatment of gang members have triggered outrage and concern among human rights organizations, which have condemned Cecot as inhumane and unacceptable.2024 November 6, David Culver, Abel Alvarado, Evelio Contreras and Rachel Clarke, “Exclusive: Locking eyes with mass murderers in El Salvador”, in CNN

Forms of CECOT

alternative formCECOT

Origin of CECOT

Borrowed from Spanish Cecot (“Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo”).

Questions about CECOT

What does CECOT mean?
CECOT means the Terrorism Confinement Center; a large maximum security prison located in Tecoluca, El Salvador.
What is CECOT the alternative letter-case form of?
CECOT is the alternative letter-case form of Cecot.
What part of speech is CECOT?
CECOT is a proper noun.

Words near CECOT in the dictionary

  1. cecogram
  2. cecopexies
  3. cecopexy
  4. cecostomies
  5. cecostomy
  6. CECOT
  7. cecotrope
  8. cecotropes
  9. cecotroph
  10. cecotrophs
  11. cecotrophy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CECOT (page history and authors); Cecot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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