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Meanings and definitions of "留置"
Definitions
- 私有財産を法務官の管理下に置くこと
- placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
- 人を監獄(または監獄のような所)に閉じこめる行為
- the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
- 警察により拘留されること
- holding by the police
- 法的な処罰として人を監獄に入れること
- putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
- 監禁されていること(通常、短期間)
- a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
Examples
- 容疑者は拘留中である
- the suspect is in custody
- 彼は警察に拘置されている
- he is in the custody of police