{
    "term": "detention",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the state of being kept in a place, especially a prison, and prevented from leaving",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "police powers of arrest and detention"
                },
                {
                    "text": "allegations of torture and detention without trial"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Prisoners have the right to challenge their detentions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a detention camp"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He made the confession while under detention."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were held in detention from 2011 to 2021."
                },
                {
                    "text": "If found guilty of smuggling drugs, she could face indefinite detention."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Lawyers argued that she should be allowed to serve her detention in her home country."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention, torture and execution."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She spent 18 years in detention."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Suspects were placed in preventive detention."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The judge will fix the period of detention."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["arbitrary", "pretrial", "indefinite"],
                "verb + detention": ["be in", "remain in", "hold somebody in"],
                "detention + noun": ["camp", "centre/​center", "facility"],
                "preposition": ["in detention", "under detention"],
                "phrases": ["a period of detention", "a term of detention"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the punishment of being kept at school for a time after other students have gone home",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They can’t give me (a) detention for this."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Persistent latecomers will be given detention."
                },
                {
                    "text": "My first day of school, and I have detention."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["arbitrary", "pretrial", "indefinite"],
                "verb + detention": ["be in", "remain in", "hold somebody in"],
                "detention + noun": ["camp", "centre/​center", "facility"],
                "preposition": ["in detention", "under detention"],
                "phrases": ["a period of detention", "a term of detention"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈtenʃn/",
                "audio": "de/detention/detention__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈtenʃn/",
                "audio": "de/detention/detention__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘withholding of what is claimed or due’): from late Latin detentio(n-), from Latin detinere ‘hold back’, from de- ‘away, aside’ + tenere ‘to hold’."
}