unarrest
verbEtymology
Definitions
To release (an arrested person) from custody.
- They were subsequently unarrested and released into their parents’ custody on Friday evening.
The act of cancelling an arrest.
- However, it has been suggested to the Committee that police will not utilise this power because there will be a fear of the "unarrest" being used as evidence of a wrongful arrest.
- Several unarrests, and only two total successful arrests, occurred at the Navy Memorial.
- These long stops essentially consist of a form of illegal, undocumented arrest, an investigation, and an “unarrest”—a wholly unconstitutional process.
The neighborhood
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No curated loop yet for unarrest. 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