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Definition of remand noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

remand

noun
 
/rɪˈmɑːnd/
 
/rɪˈmænd/
 [uncountable]
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  1. the process of keeping somebody in prison while they are waiting for their trial
    • on remand He is currently being held on remand.
    • I was in prison on remand for three weeks.
    • a remand prisoner
    Topics Law and justicec2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + remand
    • be held on
    remand + noun
    • centre
    • home
    • prisoner
    • …
    preposition
    • on remand
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    Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘send back again’): from late Latin remandare, from re- ‘back’ + mandare ‘commit’. The noun dates from the late 18th cent.
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