stockade
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8.3
- noun
- /stɑːˈkeɪd/
:
campo de prisioneros
- The political dissidents were transferred to the stockade after their protests became violent.
Examples
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Any violations of these rules will result in confinement in an army prison stockade.
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Escort him to the stockade so he can readjust his attitude.
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Guys like you end up in the stockade sooner or later.
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Are you here to escort me to the stockade, captain?
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I'll spend the rest of my life in the stockade if I have to, but I'm done with this.
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If I report this, I lose my two best pilots to a month in the stockade.
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May I request permission to withdraw from the stockade and rejoin with the u-33?
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Presidio was an army stockade in San Francisco where many of these soldiers were sent as punishment for not wanting to fight in the war or for abandoning their tour early.
Blog text (13) -
And as virtual prisoners in their small stockade in Sitka, the Russians supposedly sold the entirety of the Tlingit homeland to the United States in 1867.
Academic text (2009) -
There will be no problem interviewing Captain Acton—unless he is in a foul humor, which is usually the case—since he is back from the field at the moment and living in the stockade.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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5.6
A small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held
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5.6
A place or situation that makes someone feel trapped
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5.6
A place where many people are imprisoned without trial in harsh, crowded conditions
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1.5
A small room in a prison where guards keep prisoners
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2.7
A small locked room in jail for holding a person
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5.3
A camp where guards keep people against their will, often during war
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7.5
A prison where people are forced to work, often for political reasons
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4.9
A part of a prison that has several cells for prisoners
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4.3
A camp that holds soldiers captured during a war
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3.2
A place that holds soldiers captured by the enemy during a war
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6.2
A place where young people who broke the law stay temporarily under court care
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Stockade also came to mean the camp or area inside such a fenced barrier, especially where prisoners were kept. Because people were held behind the strong 'stakes', a stockade became a name for a guarded prison area.