Usually means: Holding someone in custody temporarily.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. detaining: Merriam-Webster
  2. detaining: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detaining: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detaining, detaining: Wordnik
  5. detaining: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detaining: Wiktionary
  7. Detaining, detaining: Dictionary.com
  8. detaining: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Detaining: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Detaining: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. detaining: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. detaining: FreeDictionary.org
  13. detaining: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. detaining: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. detaining: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The act by which someone is detained; detention.

Similar:
delay, hold up, stay, confine, detention, detension, arrestation, arrestment, retaining, restraining, more...

Opposite:
releasing, freeing, liberating



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Similar:
delay, hold up, stay, confine, detention, detension, arrestation, arrestment, retaining, restraining, more...

Opposite:
releasing, freeing, liberating



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