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inmate Definition

in·mate (inmāt′)

noun

a person living with others in the same building, now esp. one confined with others in a prison or mental institution

Etymology: in- + mate

inmate Synonyms

inmate

n.

patient, convict, internee; see patient, prisoner.

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

  • workhouse: In 1847, the five-year old orphan John Rowlands became an inmate of the workhouse.
  • asylum: Which Faust was allegedly stolen from an inmate of a lunatic asylum?
  • prison: Pray also for the governor, staff and inmates of this new prison.
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.

—Conant,James Bryant

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