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Meanings of jail in English

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A place in which individual persons have restricted personal freedom.

        Portuguese
        cadeia
        Catalan
        calabós
        Spanish
        cárcel

        A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

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            Catalan
            engarjolar

            Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.

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                Usage of jail in English
                1
                But he said he had no easy answers to the jail's challenges.
                Reuters
                2
                Indeed, the jail-breaking and underground app community thrives, by most reasonable measures.
                Reuters
                3
                THE appearance of things at the jail was forlorn in the extreme.
                Manuel Pereira; Or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina
                4
                Whether this is a true get-out-of-jail card for Vonage we don't know.
                Wired
                5
                Once in Daddy Skinner, in the jail-shehad given way before it.
                Tess of the Storm Country
                6
                He received a suspended jail sentence of one year and 10 months.
                Reuters
                7
                The troops deployed in front of the jail and stood at guard.
                The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
                8
                He was confined in the jail there and held until the U.S.
                Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
                9
                Convictions under the law carry a maximum jail term of 15 years.
                Reuters
                10
                Sanctions might include a jail sentence of as long as seven years.
                The Guardian
                11
                The surgeon ought to have been in the jail at this hour.
                It Is Never Too Late to Mend
                12
                Mr. Sewall tells me the woman is now in the Boston jail.
                Margaret Smith's Journal / Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of ...
                13
                The prisoners were taken off to jail in the police squad car.
                Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung
                14
                To-morrow you will be taken in the train to the county jail.
                Nobody's Boy / Sans Famille
                15
                The charges carry a maximum jail term of 22 years six months.
                Reuters
                16
                And for this he was arrested and put in the city jail.
                Sketches New and Old
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