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arrestee

arrestee

3 6.5
A person who police take to a station because they may have broken the law
  • noun
  • /əˌrɛsˈti/
  • Specialized
translation icon : detenido
  • The CPC 2015 extends the right to defense to a new category of participant in the criminal process: arrestees.
  • Welfare-Receiving Arrestees
  • Receiving Arrestees
  • Arrestees residing

All the new arrestees are outside of the jail and this place is crazy.

Examples

  • Several arrestees were processed at the station after the demonstration turned violent.

  • Persons held in emergency custody participate in criminal proceedings earlier than arrestees do.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Now, just exactly what is your relationship to the arrestee?

    Doctor Detroit (1983)

  • All the new arrestees are outside of the jail and this place is crazy.

    True Geordie

  • But the failure to do so won't result in the case against the arrestee being dismissed.

    Blog text (20)

  • Second, the sample used for this study was comprised of adult male arrestees.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Data for the current study were collected from adult arrestees surveyed through Philadelphia's ADAM program in 1997.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The arrestees sued, claiming that the state arrests for federal crimes violated the Fourth Amendment.

    Academic text (2018)

  • Lastly, arrestees residing in Maricopa County were less likely to test positive for opiate use.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Graham and Wish (1994) examined 164 female arrestees in order to examine female drug use in relation to deviant behavior.

    Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

detainee
vsarrestee
  • Literature
95 6.8

A person authorities hold for legal or political reasons

refers specifically to someone taken into police custody after an official charge

Surface Forms

arrestee singular
arrestees plural

Morphology

arrestee = arrest (transparent) = arrest + ee

The meaning is directly derived: 'arrest' + the suffix '-ee' yields 'a person who has been arrested', a transparent patient nominalization.

Etymology

Arrestee comes from arrest, a word that originally meant 'to stop' or 'to take into custody', plus the ending -ee, which names the person who receives an action, as in employee or trainee. So an arrestee is the person who has been arrested and taken into police custody.