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What does detainment mean?

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Noun
  1. The condition of being detained; detention
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However, the investigation failed to examine whether the detainment was illegal, which unfortunately keeps this allegation contentious.
Afterward, the police put him in a detainment room for him to sober up and is currently being detained for investigation in accordance to law.
No fewer than four appeals by detainees have reached the Supreme Court, resulting in significant changes to the detainment regime already.
The review will include, but is not limited to, the sharing of intelligence information, collection of documents and detainment of shipments.
The search resulted in the detainment of three insurgents who remain in custody.
I spoke against the detainment of political prisoners, so they detained me and made me a political prisoner.

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