detention centre
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detention centre
noun detention centres
- A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail. 2002, Russell Hogg, Chapter 1: Prisoners and the Penal Estate in Australia, David Brown, Meredith Wilkie (editors), Prisoners as Citizens: Human Rights in Australian Prisons, page 3, All jurisdictions have their own prison systems, although the Australia Capital Territory (ACT) has only one remand c
- An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin. New detention centres were opened, all in remote areas — at Woomera in the South Australian desert in November 1999, and the Curtin Detention Centre at Derby in Western Australia in February 2000.
- A concentration camp.
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noun facility in which people are detained
| 中文 | 關押中心 /关押中心 guānyā zhōngxīn |
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noun immigration detention facility
| 中文 | 關押中心 /关押中心 guānyā zhōngxīn |
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Talk about this word "detention centre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/detention%20centre. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. detention centre. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/detention%20centre "detention centre." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/detention%20centre.Cite this
@misc{detention_centre_2026,
title = {detention centre},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/detention%20centre},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
