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Jail Jailed Noun Place Criminals Order Punish People

word jail
definition
noun
A jail is a place where criminals are kept in order to punish them, or where people waiting to be tried are kept.
Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
verb
If someone is jailed, they are put into jail.
He was jailed for twenty years.
inflections jailsjailingjailedpenitentiaryjailhouse
cefr-level B2

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b2

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