Usually means: Confinement as punishment for crimes.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. prisoning: Merriam-Webster
  2. prisoning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prisoning: Wordnik
  4. prisoning: Wiktionary
  5. Prisoning, prisoning: Dictionary.com
  6. Prisoning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. Prisoning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. prisoning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. prisoning: FreeDictionary.org
  10. prisoning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prisoning: Legal dictionary

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  1. prisoning: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prisoning: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See prison as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prison)

noun:  A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
noun:  (uncountable) Confinement in prison.
noun:  (colloquial, figurative) Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
verb:  (transitive) To imprison.
▸ Also see prison


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