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Related topics: Jail & punishmentpreˌventive deˈtention noun [uncountable] British English lawSCJ a system in which people who are guilty of many crimes are kept in prison for a long time 〔对于惯犯的〕预防性拘留Examples from the Corpuspreventive detention• Her order of preventive detention caused consternation among lawyers over a possible breach of civil liberties.• Apart from the clearly implied step toward preventive detention, it was almost impossible not to detect an underlying racism.preˌventive deˈtention nounChineseSyllable Corpus are system people who a in which |