Usually means: Held in custody for questioning.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. detained: Merriam-Webster
  2. detained: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detained: Vocabulary.com
  4. Detained, detained: Wordnik
  5. detained: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. detained: Wiktionary
  7. Detained, detained: Dictionary.com
  8. detained: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Detained (film), Detained: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Detained: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Detained: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. detained: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. detained: FreeDictionary.org
  14. detained: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. detained: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Detained (Enterprise episode), detained: Legal dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Detained)

noun:  "Detained" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
noun:  a 1924 American silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.
noun:  a 2015 political thriller written by Don Brown.
noun:  Detained may refer to Detention (imprisonment)
noun:  "Detained" is the sixth episode of the British science fiction television series Class.
noun:  a 2024 American psychological thriller film directed by Felipe Mucci.


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