How to pronounce “detention centre”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
• (Australia) An immigration detention facility; a facility in which people who have attempted to enter Australia without prior authorisation are detained, pending a decision on whether they are to be accepted as refugees or returned to their country of origin.
• A concentration camp.

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