jailing
present participle ofjail
jail
verb[Toften passive]
(UKold-fashionedgaol)uk/dʒeɪl/us/dʒeɪl/to put someone in a jail:
He was jailedforthreeyears.
Synonym
imprison
- He was jailed for fourmonthsfordrink-driving.
- Protestors wereexecuted, jailed orotherwisepersecuted.
- He was jailed for 15yearsforstabbinghiswifetodeath.
- California's "threestrikesand you're out"billmeansthat from now oncriminalsfoundguiltyof threecrimesare jailed forlife.
- He was jailed forrevealingsecretsto the Russians.
Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
- bang
- bangsomeoneup
- bar
- behind barsidiom
- bird
- immured
- imprison
- imprisonment
- incarcerate
- incarceration
- intern
- lock
- pen
- remand
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
- send
- stretch
Examplesofjailing
jailing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
While some restrictions on press freedom can be substantiated, accusations about thejailingof supporters and prevention of public exposure are more difficult to verify.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Not surprisingly, however, almost all the restricted areas had established penalties for violators, ranging from cash fines tojailing.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The concerns are that increasing the fines for parents of truanting children and, more particularly,jailingthem will be counterproductive.
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Catching andjailingthem is not enough; we have to damage the whole network, or it will continue after we put them in jail.
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Thejailingof one parent will send a shock wave round the country.
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The measures used against them were to include prosecuting them, bringing them to trial and, if necessary,jailingthem.
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He persecuted his enemies, arresting andjailinga score of former members of the congress, but this did not bring peace.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This has prompted security details for higher-level administrators and thejailingof several suspects.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.That party's attempt to fight inflation with populist anti-profiteering campaigns fining andjailingmerchants for high prices angered and politicized merchants while fueling black markets.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Confiscation, burning of stocks, andjailingof workers resulted, which intensified resistance.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After an assassination attempt upon one of his cabinet ministers and himself, he ordered thejailingof dozens of his political opponents.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Magazines now print internal police reports on jailings of religious leaders and other dissidents.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The government started a crackdown in 2004, which included thejailingof a woman.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Much of the policing of the community is internal, with the watching of neighbors, gossip, reputation and sometimes overnightjailingused to enforce community norms.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The stream of accusation,jailingand confessions continued.
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