redetain

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Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ detain

Verb[edit]

redetain (third-person singular simple present redetains, present participle redetaining, simple past and past participle redetained)

  1. (transitive) To detain again.
    • 2015 August 12, Ben Doherty, “Asylum seeker forcibly returned to Afghanistan after appeals exhausted”, in The Guardian[1]:
      He came by boat to Australia, and lived in the community for three years before being redetained by immigration authorities.

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