detainer

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.
    — On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case.
  2. One who detains.
    — […] he chatted gaily with his fair detainer, showing no inclination to escape from the bondage in which she sought to retain him.

词形变化

detainers plural detainers plural

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman detener, from Old French detenir. By surface analysis, detain + -er (action noun suffix). First attested in the 17th century.
词源 2
Etymology tree
English detain
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English detainer
From detain + -er (agent noun suffix).
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