See Also: preventive detention(dictionary)
detention(dictionary)
detention(dictionary)
detention centre(dictionary)
preventive(dictionary)
preventive(dictionary)
Preventive(medicine)
preventive treatment(medicine)
preventive psychiatry(medicine)
preventive medicine(medicine)

hornito (iou) and preventive detention (oh)


hornito (iou)



hornito noun. Pl. -os. M19.
[Amer. Spanish, dim. of horno (from Latin furnus) oven, furnace.]
Geology. A driblet cone formed by successive ejections through a vent in a lava flow.

preventive detention (oh)



n [U]
BrE law a system in which people who are guilty of many crimes are kept in prison for a long time