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Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary
penitentiary
pen‧i‧ten‧tia‧ry /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/ BrE AmE noun (plural penitentiaries) [countable] American English a prison – used especially in the names of prisons: the North Carolina state penitentiary • • • THESAURUS ▪ prison a large building where people are kept as a punishment for a crime or while they are waiting to go to court for their trial: He was sentenced to five years in prison. | Wandsworth Prison ▪ jail a prison, or a similar smaller building where prisoners are kept for a short time: This old building is the jail that Butch Cassidy escaped from in 1887. | He was taken to a cell in the Los Angeles County Jail. | 58% of prisoners are in jail for non-violent crimes. | The strikers were harassed, beaten and put in jail for trespassing. | Grover got caught for not paying his taxes and was sent to jail. ▪ gaol /dʒeɪl/ British English another way of spelling jail: He spent the night in gaol. ▪ penitentiary /ˌpenəˈtenʃəri, ˌpenɪˈtenʃəri/ American English a large prison for people who are guilty of serious crimes: the Ohio State Penitentiary | The murderer served 10 years at the penitentiary in Stillwater. | the abandoned federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island ▪ correctional facility American English formal an official word for a prison: 1,000 prisoners rioted at the North County Correctional Facility. ▪ detention centre British English, detention center American English a place where young people who have done something illegal are kept, because they are too young to go to prison. Also used about a place where people who have entered a country illegally are kept: Kevin, who had been abandoned by his mother, had been in and out of detention centres all his life. | a juvenile detention center | Harmondsworth detention centre, near Heathrow airport ▪ open prison British English a prison in which prisoners have more freedom than in an ordinary prison, usually because their crimes were less serious: In some open prisons, prisoners are allowed to go home at weekends. ▪ cell a small room in a prison or police station, where someone is kept as a punishment: a prison cell | Conditions were poor, and there were several prisoners to one cell.
penitentiaryhu◎ | [,peni'ten∫əri] | ※ | danh từ | | ■ | trại cải tạo, trại phục hồi nhân phẩm (cải tạo gái điếm) | | ■ | (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) nhà lao | ※ | tính từ | | ■ | để cải tạo; (thuộc) cải tạo | | ■ | khổ hạnh để sám hối |
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