jail

jail
jail1 also gaol BrE [dʒeıl] n [U and C]
[Date: 1200-1300; : Old French; Origin: jaiole, from Latin caveola, from cavea 'cage']
a place where criminals are kept as part of their punishment, or where people who have been charged with a crime are kept before they are judged in a law court
= ↑prison
▪ He's been in jail for three months already.
▪ They're going to jail for embezzlement and fraud.
▪ The government would put him in jail if he stayed in the country.
▪ Drunks were thrown in jail for a few days.
▪ Griffiths spent three days in jail after pushing a policeman.
▪ More than 30 of those arrested were released from jail for lack of evidence.
▪ He's serving a 7-year jail sentence .
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COLLOCATES for sense 1
in jail
go to jail
put somebody in jail
send somebody to jail
be/get thrown in jail (=be put in jail)
spend time/3 months/6 years etc in jail
release somebody from jail
get out of jail
jail sentence (= punishment of time in jail)
jail term (=amount of time spent in jail)
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jail 2
jail2 also gaol BrE v [T]
to put someone in jail
jail sb for sth
▪ Watson was jailed for tax evasion.
jail sb for two months/six years/life etc
▪ They ought to jail her killer for life.

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