as in penitentiary
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
prisoners of war confined in a stockade
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Recent Examples of stockade
The Rufus Putnam House was part of the original stockade.
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Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
Some suggest the logs' close location means they were used as a type of stockade.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
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Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 15 July 2024
Some suggest the logs' close location means they were used as a type of stockade.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
Trantalis predicts the stockade will end up opening its doors to the homeless one way or another.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 27 June 2024
Those posts formed the outline of the stockade that, at one time, may have housed some 1,200 British prisoners of war.
—The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stockade
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The state penitentiary in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota recently expanded its transitional care unit to meet the needs of its aging population.Tom Chiodo, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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Unsurprisingly, perhaps, Hollinger’s affairs proved to be a total mess: Black was later convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice and spent more than three years in a federal penitentiary.Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
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Juan Carlos Garcia has been booked into the Williamson County Jail with a $2 million bond, according to jail records.Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
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Also, jail doesn’t mean that the taxes are forgiven.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Dec. 2024
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In a state court indictment announced earlier this week, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office charged Mangione with murder as an act of terrorism, which carries a possible sentence of life in prison without parole.MARK SCOLFORO, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2024
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He was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday.Reuters, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
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Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024
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The government held both Padilla and al-Marri in a Navy brig to keep them out of civilian custody.Brian Michael Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
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“Stockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stockade. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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