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▸ noun:  A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
▸ noun:  (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
▸ noun:  In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
▸ noun:  (computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
▸ verb:  To imprison.

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