detention centre (English, noun)
expansion: detention centre (plural detention centres)
Senses:
glosses: A facility in which people are detained (held in custody); a jail.
glosses: 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.
tags: Australia
glosses: A concentration camp.
Forms:
form: detention centres
tags: plural