detention cell

1. 1.

   a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily

   Synonymsbullpendetention centre

   Broadercell

   Canada · United Kingdom

Questions about detention cell

What does detention cell mean?

detention cell means "a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily".

What is another word for detention cell?

Close synonyms include bullpen, detention centre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is detention cell a common word?

detention cell is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.