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(US) Part of a prison used for the segregation and isolation of difficult prisoners.
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(historical) A penal method of the 19th century in which prisoners worked during the day in groups and were kept in solitary confinement at night, with enforced silence at all times.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A Quaker meetinghouse.
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Alternative form of beadsman [(historical) A petitioner; someone who seeks some type of favour from another, usually from a superior.]
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(Scotland, historical) A public almsman; one who received alms from the king, and was expected in return to pray for the royal welfare and that of the state; a licensed beggar.
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(transitive) To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver.
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A facility in which individuals are detained by the state without access to legal process or representation.
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(historical) A protester taking part in the Blanket March, a demonstration organized in Manchester, England in March 1817, mainly by Lancashire weavers, with the intention of marching to London to petition the Prince Regent over the desperate state of the textile industry in Lancashire, and to protest over the recent suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
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(chiefly Canada, US) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
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(historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
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(dated in Britain, Ireland, rare elsewhere) A small prison, or a police station that has cells.
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(slang, derogatory) Any low-security prison.
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A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
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(Canada, US, slang) A prison offering greater comfort and more facilities to inmates than is typical.
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(figuratively) A situation wherein crowding and extremely harsh conditions take place.
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(UK, prison slang, historical) The chief officer of a prison.
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(historical) A system of prison discipline involving periods of confinement to one's cell, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.
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A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die for various reasons, such as starvation, disease, brutality and neglect.
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(American spelling) Work which one is compelled to perform against one's will, especially in a condition of involuntary servitude as a prisoner or slave.
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(slang) The general population of a prison.
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(informal, terrorism) The detention center for officially undisclosed persons without charge, process, or recourse; located at the U.S. naval base
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Synonym of Gitmo (detention camp)
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Synonym of military prison.
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A prison camp, especially one used to hold political prisoners.
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(US, Massachusetts, Maryland) A prison.
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(Scotland) An endorsement.
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(computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
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People considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to fill jails.
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Alternative form of jail fodder [People considered to be expendable, worth nothing more than to fill jails.]
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A building containing a prison.
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(Ireland, slang) An area in a prison where Irish was spoken, particularly during the Troubles.
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(US) A prison/jail sentence.
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A yard adjoining a prison.
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(obsolete, UK, finance) A promoter or broker of stocks for investment.
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(UK, informal) A job, normally a task rather than a form of employment for which one is paid.
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(American spelling) Alternative spelling of labour camp [A type of prison where prisoners are obliged to do forced labour, usually outdoors.]
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(obsolete) A foreign trader.
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A prison operated by the military.
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(historical) Any profession that was disreputable because it caused a great deal of pollution. The archetypal example is the tannery.
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(historical) A German prisoner-of-war camp for officers only.
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A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
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A subsection of a prison, containing a number of inmates.
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Synonym of prisoner-of-war camp
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(US, sometimes derogatory) A variety of Islam to which its adherents converted in prison.
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(US) A low-security federal prison.
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A large correctional facility in which convicts are forced to do manual labor, largely in open air.
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A camp in which prisoners of war are interned.
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(uncountable, Australia, slang) Confinement in a prison.
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A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination.
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(US, slang) Clipping of reservation (“tract of land set apart for native people”). [The practice of reserving part of the consecrated bread of the Eucharist for the communion of the sick.]
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(UK) Solitary confinement imposed to protect a vulnerable prisoner from other inmates.
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(US prison slang) Segregation
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(historical) Any of the NKVD special camps in Germany 1945–49.
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(India, historical) For a young lady to open her house for several successive nights for any visitors who wish to pay their respects.
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(figuratively) The employment of workers for meagre pay to do tedious tasks.
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(figuratively) A person who does what is bid, or is obliged to do as bid; something that dutifully performs virtually any task.
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A very low amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work.
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A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, or owns slaves.
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(historical) A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II.
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(UK, Ireland) A person in prison for the first time.
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The prison in this locality
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(sometimes humorous, sometimes as an address) The office, rank, or title of a thief; thiefhood; thiefdom
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(informal) someone who does very unpleasant or drudging work for a wage
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A small prison attached to a police station, usually used on a temporary basis.
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(Australia) A six-month or six-year prison sentence.
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A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
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