Usually means: Detention without charge to prevent harm.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. preventive detention: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preventive detention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preventive detention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preventive-detention: Wordnik
  5. preventive detention: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. preventive detention: Dictionary.com
  7. Preventive detention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. preventive detention: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. preventive detention: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  4. preventive detention, Preventive detention: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Preventive detention)

▸ noun:  an imprisonment that is putatively justified for non-punitive purposes, most often to prevent further criminal acts.


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