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predetention

predetention adjective: prior to detention.

Adjective

predetention (not comparable)

  1. Prior to detention.
    • This was a powerful symbolic ruling, but it eliminated neither the ill treatment of detainees during the predetention period (when the suspects are in the hands of the military or the police) nor forms of “moderate physical pressure” […]2017, Gershon Shafir, A Half Century of Occupation, page 40

Origin of predetention

From pre- + detention.

Questions about predetention

What does predetention mean?
Predetention means prior to detention.
What part of speech is predetention?
Predetention is an adjective.

Words near predetention in the dictionary

  1. predestiny
  2. predetect
  3. predetected
  4. predetecting
  5. predetects
  6. predetention
  7. predeterminability
  8. predeterminable
  9. predeterminant
  10. predeterminants
  11. predeterminate

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