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lockup

noun as in jail

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The situation escalated after the police put her fiance in the lockup, she alleged.

From BBC

In a letter to the court, Combs lawyers said that comparing him to Kelly and Maxwell — both of whom served time in the Brooklyn federal lockup while awaiting trial for sex trafficking — were not fair.

And it’s a problem in federal prisons as well as state lockups.

“And this kid says to me, ‘Yo, doctor, that’s kind of nice, but, you know, really, man, we don’t think these kids need to be in lockup in the first place.’”

Trump will be entitled to sell any or all of those shares starting in mid-September, when a six-month lockup period expires.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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