redetain
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redetain (third-person singular simple present redetains, present participle redetaining, simple past and past participle redetained)
- (transitive) To detain again.
- 2015 August 12, Ben Doherty, “Asylum seeker forcibly returned to Afghanistan after appeals exhausted”, in The Guardian[1]:
- He came by boat to Australia, and lived in the community for three years before being redetained by immigration authorities.