Contextualizebeta

detention centre

noun

Definitions

  1. A facility in which people are detained (held in custody)

    A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.

  2. An immigration detention facility

    An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.

    • New detention centres were opened, all in remote areas — at Woomera in the South Australian desert in November 1999, and the Curtin Detention Centre at Derby in Western Australia in February 2000.
    • People landing on these islands could also be transferred to detention centres on Nauru or Manus Island and had no access to Australia′s legal system.

  3. A concentration camp.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for detention centre. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA