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
Noun
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In 2015, Ulbricht was handed a life sentence for his involvement in the enterprise and is currently incarcerated at a high-security penitentiary in Tucson, Arizona.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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He was freed on parole from the Terre Haute, Indiana, federal penitentiary on Nov. 30, 1948, after serving 32 months of his five-year prison sentence.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Johnson was arrested on July 17 and bonded out of jail five days later, officials with the sheriff’s office said.—
Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
19 Jan. 2025
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Deterring criminal behavior With clear penalties, including fines and jail time, this legislation will serve as a deterrent to anyone contemplating unlawful occupancy of another person’s home.—
Ryan Nawrocki,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2025
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Biden also commuted sentences for 37 of 40 convicts on death row in federal prisons, which was largely a policy statement against capital punishment.—
Ron Faucheux,
Orlando Sentinel,
19 Jan. 2025
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He was convicted of a drug offense in 1994 and served eight years in prison.—
Colleen Long,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Jan. 2025
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Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
14 Jan. 2025
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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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“Stockade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stockade. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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