predetention

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ detention

Adjective

predetention (not comparable)

1. Prior to detention.
   • 2017, Gershon Shafir, A Half Century of Occupation, page 40:

     This was a powerful symbolic ruling, but it eliminated neither the ill treatment of detainees during the predetention period (when the suspects are in the hands of the military or the police) nor forms of “moderate physical pressure” […]