remand in custody
B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
To hold a defendant in prison while awaiting trial or sentence rather than releasing them on bail.
Because he posed a flight risk, the court ordered that he be remanded in custody until trial.
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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