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REMAND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does remand mean?
• REMAND (noun)
The noun REMAND has 1 sense:
1. the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)
Familiarity information: REMAND used as a noun is very rare.
• REMAND (verb)
The verb REMAND has 2 senses:
1. refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
2. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Familiarity information: REMAND used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("remand" is a kind of...):
return (the act of going back to a prior location)
Derivation:
remand (lock up or confine, in or as in a jail)
Conjugation: |
Past simple: remanded
Past participle: remanded
-ing form: remanding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "remand" is one way to...):
challenge (issue a challenge to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 2
Meaning:
Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
gaol; immure; imprison; incarcerate; jail; jug; lag; put away; put behind bars; remand
Context example:
the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
Hypernyms (to "remand" is one way to...):
confine; detain (deprive of freedom; take into confinement)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They want to remand the prisoners
Derivation:
remand (the act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial))
Context examples
He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We understand that when the prisoner is brought before the magistrates a remand will be applied for by the police, and that great developments are hoped from his capture.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I will remand the order I despatched to my banker.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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