From detain + -ee.
detainee (plural detainees)
- Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
2013, Anthony Gregory, The Power of Habeas Corpus in America: From the King's Prerogative to the War on Terror, page 74:Louis Louaillier, a U.S. citizen, journalist, and assemblymember, wrote in his local newspaper, The Louisiana Courier, that detainees should go to a civil judge...
one who is detained
- Albanian: (i/e) (please verify) arrestuar (sq)
- Arabic: أسير m (ʔasīr), أسيرة f (ʔasīra), أسرى m pl (ʔasrā), أسيرات f pl (ʔasīrāt)
- Bulgarian: задържан (bg) m (zadǎržan), арестант (bg) m (arestant)
- Catalan: detingut (ca) m, detinguda (ca) f
- Esperanto: malliberulo
- French: détenu (fr) m, détenue (fr) f
- German: Häftling (de) m, Strafgefangener (de) m
- Hungarian: letartóztatott (hu), elítélt (hu), fogvatartott (hu), rab (hu), fogoly (hu), őrizetes (hu)
- Interlingua: detenito m, detenita f
- Italiano: detenuto (it) m, detenuta (it) f
- Portuguese: detento m, detenta f
- Russian: задержанный (ru) (zaderžannyj)
- Spanish: detenido (es) m, detenida (es) f
- Ukrainian: затри́маний m (zatrýmanyj), затри́мана f (zatrýmana)
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