predetention

adj

predetention

adj

Etymology From pre- + detention.

1

Prior to detention.

This was a powerful symbolic ruling, but it eliminated neither the ill treatment of detainees during the predetention period (when the suspects are in the hands of the military or the police) nor forms of “moderate physical pressure” […]2017, Gershon Shafir, A Half Century of Occupation, page 40:

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