detenção
Portuguese
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin dētentiōnem.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: de‧ten‧ção
Noun
editdetenção f (plural detenções)
- detention, custody
- deterrence
- (law) possession
- (law) prison; imprisonment; arrest
- (military) disciplinary penalty that applies to military personnel, preventing them from leaving the barracks for a variable number of days (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)