Usually means: Facility for holding detained individuals.
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  1. detention centre: Collins English Dictionary
  2. detention centre: Vocabulary.com
  3. detention centre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. detention centre: Wiktionary
  5. detention centre: Dictionary.com
  6. Detention centre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. detention centre: Rhymezone
  8. detention centre: FreeDictionary.org
  9. detention centre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. detention centre: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. detention centre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. detention centre: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detention centre)

noun:  A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
noun:  (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
noun:  A concentration camp.

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