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detainmentsnounpl. of detainment an instance or period of being prevented from going about one's businessthe returning vacationers' detainment at the border only lasted a few minutes delays, detentions, holdbacks, holding patterns, holdups, waits deferments, deferrals, postponementsreprieves, respitesfoot-draggings, hesitations, lags, pauses, setbacks, slowdowns hastes, rushesdispatches, promptitudes the state of being held in lawful custodyshe'll be kept in detainment until the trial if she can't post bail detainers, detentions, holds, immurements, imprisonments, incarcerations captivities, confinements, internmentsapprehensions, arrestments, arrests, busts(slang), collars, pinchescaptures, entrapments, seizuresenchainments, restraints discharges, releases emancipations, freedoms, liberations |