immediate arrest

collocation in English

meaningsofimmediateandarrest

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immediate
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/us
/ɪˈmiː.di.ət/
happening or done without delay or very soon after ...
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arrest
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈrest/us
/əˈrest/
the act of ...
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(Definition ofimmediateandarrestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first is theimmediatearrestof inflation and the reversal of the present monetary trend.
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Frequently, when there has been vandalism, hooliganism or violence to the person, there is animmediatearrest.
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This precaution effected theimmediatearrestof the outbreak.
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But, again, it may be that in the course of the interview the police officer is given sufficient grounds to suspect a fraud to justify animmediatearrest.
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Failure to produce that meantimmediatearrest.
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This was used as a pretext for theimmediatearrest, without any formal process, of a number of soldiers and civilians throughout the country.
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In hearing this, the chief became angry, ordering for theimmediatearrestof the bat.
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Animmediatearrestdid not occur, however, for unknown reasons.
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One apparent implication is that investigators may take photographs in residential common areas at universities without being subject toimmediatearrest.
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Two days later, theimmediatearrestof the defendants was ordered.
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This led to theimmediatearrestof all the actors of the play.
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A deputation from the insurrectionary committee came and demanded theimmediatearrestof twenty-two and the twelve.
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They also complained that his sight arrest orders, in which loiterers were subject toimmediatearrest, filled up city's jails overnight.
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The governor adds that he has already given orders for hisimmediatearrest.
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