jail

IPA(Pronunciation)

/d͡ʒeɪ(ə)l/

Noun

countable uncountable

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.

Japanese Meaning

拘置所：法的な拘束下にある者を一時的に収容する施設（特に軽微な犯罪や審理待ちの被疑者・被告人が留置される場所）

What is this buttons?

After missing his court date, he spent a night in jail and learned a hard lesson.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼は出廷日に来なかったため、地元の留置場で一晩過ごし、身にしみる教訓を学んだ。

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Sense（1）

Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. "Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end," he says, "what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?"

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Sense（2）

(uncountable) Confinement in a jail.

He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.

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Sense（3）

(horse racing) 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).

Sense（4）

In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.

Sense（5）

(computing, FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

jails

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