jail
US: /ˈdʒeɪɫ/
UK: /dʒˈeɪl/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
jail /dʤeil/- danh từ & ngoại động từ
- (như) goal
Advanced English dictionary
(BrE also gaol) noun, verb+ noun [U, C] a prison: She spent a year in jail. + He has been released from jail. + a ten-year jail sentence + Britain's overcrowded jails - SCHOOL
+ verb [VN] [usually passive] ~ sb (for sth) to put sb in prison: He was jailed for life for murder.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 Brit gaol, prison, lock-up, reformatory, Brit Borstal, US penitentiary, reform school, Nautical brig, Slang cooler, clink, can, jug, stir, slammer, Brit nick, quod, choky or chokey, US calaboose, big house, pen, coop, hoosegow, pokey:
They were sent to jail for life.
v.
2 imprison, lock up, incarcerate, detain, confine, Brit send down, US send up (the river):
He was jailed for 30 days.
Collocation
ADJ.
county, local | high-security, maximum security, top security | private | overcrowded
VERB + JAIL
go to
He's gone to jail for fraud.
| put sb in, send sb to, throw sb into | keep sb in | be freed from, be/get out of, be released from
With good behaviour, she could be out of jail in two years.
| escape from | threaten sb with
He was threatened with jail if evidence of a hoax was discovered.
| face | avoid, escape
She avoided jail by pleading self-defence.
JAIL + NOUN
sentence, term
PREP.
at a/the ~
riots at Strangeways jail
| in (a/the) ~
How long has she been in jail? There was a fire in the jail last night.
Concise dictionary
jails|jailed|jailingdʒeɪlnoun
+a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
verb
+lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
