Crossword-Solution: DETAINMENT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Detainment | n. | Detention. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DETAINMENT | anagram | TINNEDMEAT |
We have 1 clue for the answer “DETAINMENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Enforced delay | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DETAINMENT (3)
The severely repressive and humiliating measures undertaken on the initiative of progressive provincial Governors, and with the connivance of State officials in the Capital, aiming at the scattering and ultimate extinction of a rapidly waning clergy, such as degradation, detainment, deportation and in some cases pitiless execution, are paving the way for the entire removal of the shackles imposed by an ignorant and fanatical priesthood upon the administration of State affairs.
Against person and property together: forcible interception, divestment, usurpation, investment, or destruction of property, forcible occupation or detainment of movables, forcible entry, forcible detainment of immovables, robbery.
Her displeasure was excessive.--She complained bitterly of her detainment, and much more of being sent a prisoner to the camp.
Quotes with DETAINMENT (2)
I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
The question of a valid parental-child relationship is at the center of how the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services handle detainment. Because of fraudulent documentation, profits to smugglers, and false asylum claims, there is essentially no way to prove or verify adults traveling with children are indeed their parents.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1971).