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arrest
/əˈrest/ noun [C, U]Definition
› when the police take someone away to ask them about a crime which they might have committed: Police made 20 arrests at yesterday's demonstration. He's under arrest (= has been arrested). → See also house arrest
(Definition of arrest noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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