Usually means: Facilities for short-term incarceration.
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  1. jails: Merriam-Webster
  2. jails: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jails: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jail's, Jails, jail's, jails: Wordnik
  5. jails: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jails: Wiktionary
  7. jails: Dictionary.com
  8. jails: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Jails: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. jails: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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  1. jails: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (jail)

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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