temporary detention
Short-term holding
Temporary detention is the holding of a person by authorities for a limited period, typically while determining whether formal charges or further action are warranted.
Immigration authorities use temporary detention while processing asylum claims or deportation cases.
Police may place someone in temporary detention during an investigation.
The term often appears in legal and bureaucratic contexts where indefinite holding would be unlawful: The suspect was released after 48 hours of temporary detention.
- holdingMaintaining physical possession
- police custodyHeld by officers
- custodyProtective care or control
- lockupTemporary detention facility
- cellBasic unit of life
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temporary detentionfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · release · free movement · emancipation · discharge
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