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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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cadeia
Portuguese
prender
Catalan
engarjolar

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

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