Usually means: Legal order to hold individual.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. detainer: Merriam-Webster
  2. detainer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detainer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detainer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detainer: Wordnik
  6. detainer: Wiktionary
  7. detainer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. detainer: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. detainer: Dictionary.com
  10. Detainer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Detainer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. detainer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Detainer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. detainer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. detainer: FreeDictionary.org
  16. detainer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. detainer: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. detainer: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. detainer: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detainer)

▸ noun:  (law) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody.
▸ noun:  One who detains.

Similar:
unlawful detainer, detainder, retention, detention, retainer, detention warrant, distraint, custody, safekeeper, deforciant, more...

Opposite:
release, liberation, freedom

Types:
arrest warrant, deportation order, restraining order, protective order, more...

Phrases:
unlawful detainer, forcible detainer, forcible entry and detainer, more...

Adjectives:
unlawful, forcible, wrongful, unjust, federal, subsequent, illegal, tortious, lawful, bare, outstanding



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Similar:
unlawful detainer, detainder, retention, detention, retainer, detention warrant, distraint, custody, safekeeper, deforciant, more...

Opposite:
release, liberation, freedom

Types:
arrest warrant, deportation order, restraining order, protective order, more...

Phrases:
unlawful detainer, forcible detainer, forcible entry and detainer, more...

Adjectives:
unlawful, forcible, wrongful, unjust, federal, subsequent, illegal, tortious, lawful, bare, outstanding



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