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What does detentions mean?

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Noun
  1. plural of detention
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Most of the resulting civilian detentions, torture and deaths are covered up.
Making students go for detentions was the standard punishment for a failure of a test.
No wonder I was able to sweet talk my way out of detentions better then her.
These laws lead to arbitrary arrests and detentions for long periods without any preliminary trial.
And he's paid dearly for his outspokenness, resulting in numerous attests and detentions under the country's past military juntas.
After class, Mrs. Barry assigned us both detentions for the next day, after school.

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