detainee
B2CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A person held in immigration custody pending a decision on their status or removal.
The detainee applied for bail after spending four months in the removal centre.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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