indefinitely detain

Frequency: 7.211.2 per million words

To hold or keep someone for an unlimited or unspecified period of time.

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Examples (10)

  • Prisoners cannot be detained indefinitely without charge.
  • The new legislation allows authorities to indefinitely detain suspected terrorists.
  • Human rights groups protested the government's power to indefinitely detain individuals.
  • Under the emergency decree, he was indefinitely detained and denied access to a lawyer.
  • Is it ethical to indefinitely detain someone who has not been convicted of a crime?
  • The general gave the order to indefinitely detain all enemy sympathizers.
  • The report revealed that hundreds of political opponents were being indefinitely detained.
  • A fundamental principle of justice is that no one should be indefinitely detained without a fair trial.
  • The regime has been known to indefinitely detain anyone who speaks out against it.
  • Being indefinitely detained took a severe psychological toll on the asylum seekers.