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WordBand 6–7Core (NGSL)
jail
/dʒeɪl/
noun1 of 2
place to hold criminals being punished for a crime
- “In jail, you never know what the next day holds.”Tatoeba
- “If you do that, you might end up in jail.”Tatoeba
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verb2 of 2
To imprison.
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)