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detention   (TTS Sound)

The noun detention has 2 senses

• detention, detainment, hold, custody -- (a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police")


• detention -- (a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home; "the detention of tardy pupils")