"detention centre" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 detention centre.ogg [Australia] Forms: detention centres [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} detention centre (plural detention centres)
  1. A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail. Translations (facility in which people are detained): 關押中心 (Chinese Mandarin), 关押中心 (guānyā zhōngxīn) (Chinese Mandarin), pidätyskeskus (Finnish), rumah tahanan (Indonesian)
    Sense id: en-detention_centre-en-noun-ppHOkVgu Disambiguation of 'facility in which people are detained': 53 41 6
  2. (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin. Tags: Australia Categories (topical): Prison Derived forms: juvenile detention centre, youth detention centre Translations (immigration detention facility): 關押中心 (Chinese Mandarin), 关押中心 (guānyā zhōngxīn) (Chinese Mandarin), pidätyskeskus (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-detention_centre-en-noun-7iaeyiU3 Disambiguation of Prison: 26 66 8 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 41 52 7 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 23 69 8 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 26 68 6 Disambiguation of 'immigration detention facility': 14 83 2
  3. A concentration camp.
    Sense id: en-detention_centre-en-noun-VJaRhkRb

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