detainable
adjEtymology From detain + -able.
1
Capable of being detained.
- He was sent to Guantánamo in 2002, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly found that from the beginning of his stay, “there is no evidence in the record that anyone directed any allegations toward al-Rabiah nor any indication that interrogators believed al-Rabiah had engaged in any conduct that made him lawfully detainable.”2009 September 26, The Associated Press, “Kuwaiti Ordered Released From Guantánamo Bay”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- undetainable