inmate
inmate
Definition
in·mate (in′māt′)
inmate
Synonyms
inmate
Law Definition
n
An individual confined in a correctional or psychiatric
institution.
inmate
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- accommodate: The new building, intended to accommodate 180 inmates, was was designed by George Wilkinson of Witney.
Adjective modifier
- imbecile: On the first and second floors were wards for imbecile inmates, with two padded rooms.
- able-bodied: Holborn's Gray's Inn workhouse was designated for able-bodied inmates.
- fellow: Some of his fellow inmates have an escape plan.
- female: There are 40 male and 41 female inmates, of whom 30 are children under 12, and 25 above 60.
- former: Former inmates who test positive for drugs are also subjected to beatings.
- male: In January, 1836, a group of male inmates rioted an pulled down one of the new walls.
Modifies a noun
- behavior: The more negative inmate behavior becomes, the more extreme the coercive control will become.
- workhouse: Inmates Workhouses, List of those visited in 1867 With Name of the Workhouse and numbers of insane, idiotic, and imbecile inmates.
Noun used with modifier
- pauper: She is assisted by pauper inmates, who act under her direction.
- workhouse: The workhouse inmates ' day was governed by the workhouse bell.
- prison: Most of us work to prison inmates in the game.
- camp: The use of concentration camp inmates was not of economic significance to the war effort in the first years of the war.
- row: A death row inmate gazing from his Missouri cell?
- concentration: The use of concentration camp inmates was not of economic significance to the war effort in the first years of the war.
Preposition: in
- workhouse: The number of the inmates in the workhouse was 98 in 1841, & 163 in 1851.
- prison: And they believe prison officers say ' racist things ' because of the power they hold over inmates in prison.
Preposition: of
inmate Quotes
It seems as though I were in a lunatic asylum, but I am never sure who is the attendant and who the inmate.
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