political detainee

1. 1.

   some held in custody

   Synonymsdetainee

   Broaderprisoner

Questions about political detainee

What does political detainee mean?

political detainee means "some held in custody".

What is another word for political detainee?

Close synonyms include detainee. 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 political detainee a common word?

political detainee 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.