Dictionary entry

Detainee

Pronunciation: /ˌdɪteɪˈniː/

Pronunciation

/ˌdɪteɪˈniː/

Myanmar Meaning

နိုင်ငံရေးဖြင့် ဖမ်းဆီး ( ထိမ်းသိမ်း ) ခံရသူ။

Definition

detain /dÇ'teÇn/ v ၁။ ခ်ဳပ္ထားသည္။ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားသည္။ emergency powers allowing the government to detain political prisoners without charge ❍ The police detained him for questioning. See also DETENTION ၂။ ( fml ) တားထားသည္။ ၾကန္႔ၾကာေစသည္။ ဆြဲထားသည္။ There is little to detain the visitor in these churches. ❍ This question need not detain us long (ie can be settled quickly). ❏ detainee /di:teÇ'ni:/ n ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသူ။ political detainees.

Examples

  1. A 29-year-old man was detained for questioning.
  2. Nine people were treated in hospital and one was detained overnight.
  3. Ms Dawson has been detained
  4. so we will start the meeting without her.