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UK
/pɹˈɪzən/
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[ US /ˈpɹɪzən/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪzən/ ]
NOUN
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
How To Use prison In A Sentence
- The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
- She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
- Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces? See, it's not all about the election today.
- Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
- So there is mounting concern at the top of government about how close to meltdown the prison system is. The Sun
- A troubleshooter is being appointed to make the prison service more efficient.
- The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
- Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way. The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
- The police had a good defence to the claims in false imprisonment and unlawful detention. Times, Sunday Times
- The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.