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v. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard.

v. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: The police detained several suspects for questioning. The disruptive students were detained after school until their parents had been notified.

v. Obsolete To retain or withhold (payment or property, for example).

v. Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

v. To put under custody.

v. To keep back or from; to withhold.

v. To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay.

v. To hold or keep in custody.

n. Detention.

To keep back or away; withhold; specifically, to keep or retain unjustly.

To keep or restrain from proceeding; stay or stop: as, we were detained by the rain.

In law, to hold in custody.

n. Detention.

v. deprive of freedom; take into confinement

v. stop or halt

v. cause to be slowed down or delayed

"And yet Judge Luttig brushes this language aside, seizing upon a different sentence in the Endo opinion: The fact that the Act and the [executive] orders are silent on detention does not of course mean that any power to detain is lacking."

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