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单词 inmate
释义

inmate

noun
 
/ˈɪnmeɪt/
/ˈɪnmeɪt/
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  1. one of the people living in an institution such as a prison or a psychiatric hospital
    • The jail has 500 inmates.
    • He was attacked by a fellow inmate.
    Extra Examples
    • The inmates were transferred to an undisclosed location.
    • a camp where more than 4 000 inmates are housed
    • a former inmate of an Ohio prison
    • drug and alcohol misuse among inmates
    • inmates serving lengthy terms
    Topics Crime and punishmentc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • fellow
    • former
    • new
    verb + inmate
    • transfer
    • free
    • release
    inmate + verb
    • escape
    • serve something
    inmate + noun
    • population
    preposition
    • among inmate
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    Word Originlate 16th cent. (denoting a person who shared a house, specifically a lodger or subtenant): probably originally from inn + mate, later associated with in.
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