prisión

Translation

s.f.

›

⇨ prison

⇨ jail

Ha estado en prisión desde 1980

He has been in jail since 1980

⇨ gaol uk old-fash

⇨ penitentiary us (pl penitentiaries)

› (privación de libertad)

⇨ custodial sentence

(Definition of prisión s.f. from the Diccionario Cambridge Compact Español-Inglés © Cambridge University Press and Ediciones SM 2011)

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