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detainers

detainers is the plural of detainer.

Meaning of detainer

Noun (1)

detainer (plural detainers)

  1. The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.
    • On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case.2007 August 21, Kareem Fahim, “Presidential Candidate Blames Killings on Newark Sanctuary Policy”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2019

Noun (2)

detainer (plural detainers)

  1. One who detains.
    • […] he chatted gaily with his fair detainer, showing no inclination to escape from the bondage in which she sought to retain him.1840, Ellen Pickering, Who shall be heir?, volume 1, page 146

Questions about detainers

What is detainers the plural of?
Detainers is the plural of detainer.

Words near detainers in the dictionary

  1. detained
  2. detainee
  3. detainees
  4. detaineeship
  5. detainer
  6. detainers
  7. detainest
  8. detaineth
  9. detaining
  10. detainingly
  11. detainings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detainers (page history and authors); detainer (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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