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jailees

jailees is the plural of jailee.

Meaning of jailee

Noun

jailee (plural jailees)

  1. One who is jailed; a prisoner.
    • There is the jailee in Ciudad Jua'rez, Mexico, in 1968, forced to argue in local court for his own interest in uncertain street Spanish or caló after a spat with a hotelkeeper.2003, A. Robert Lee, Multicultural American literature, page 62

Questions about jailees

What is jailees the plural of?
Jailees is the plural of jailee.

Words near jailees in the dictionary

  1. jailcell
  2. jailcells
  3. jaildom
  4. jailed
  5. jailee
  6. jailees
  7. jailer
  8. jaileress
  9. jaileresses
  10. jailering
  11. jailers

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