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What (who) is Arrest - definition

DETENTION OF A PERSON AND TAKING IT INTO CUSTODY, USUALLY BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SUSPECTED OF COMMITTING OR PLANNING A CRIME

Arrested; Arrests; Police custody; Police detention; Nabbing; Nab (law); Arrest power; Under arrest; Police booking; Nicked; Arrestee; Arresting

arrest

(arrests, arresting, arrested)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.

Police arrested five young men in connection with one of the attacks...

The police say seven people were arrested for minor offences.

VERB: V n, be V-ed for n

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Arrest is also a noun.

Police chased the fleeing terrorists and later made two arrests...

Murder squad detectives approached the man and placed him under arrest.

N-VAR: oft under N

2.

If something or someone arrests a process, they stop it continuing. (FORMAL)

The sufferer may have to make major changes in his or her life to arrest the disease...

VERB: V n

3.

If something interesting or surprising arrests your attention, you suddenly notice it and then continue to look at it or consider it carefully. (FORMAL)

The work of an architect of genius always arrests the attention no matter how little remains...

VERB: V n

4.

see also house arrest

arrest

Seizure of a ship by an authority of a court of law either as a debt security or to prevent the ship from departing until a dispute is settled.

arrest

v. 1) to take or hold a suspected criminal with legal authority, as by a law enforcement officer. An arrest may be made legally based on a warrant issued by a court after receiving a sworn statement of probable cause to believe there has been a crime committed by this person, for an apparent crime committed in the presence of the arresting officer, or upon probable cause to believe a crime has been committed by that person. Once the arrest has been made, the officer must give the arrestee his/her rights ("Miranda rights") at the first practical moment, and either cite the person to appear in court or bring him/her in to jail. A person arrested must be brought before a judge for arraignment in a short time (e.g. within two business days), and have his/her bail set. A private "security guard" cannot actually arrest someone except by citizen's arrest, but can hold someone briefly until a law officer is summoned. A "citizen's arrest" can be made by any person when a crime has been committed in his/her presence. However, such self-help arrests can lead to lawsuits for "false arrest" if proved to be mistaken, unjustified or involving unnecessary holding. 2) to delay the enforcement of a judgment by a judge while errors in the record are corrected. See also: arrest warrant false arrest Miranda warning probable cause warrant

Wikipedia

Arrest

An arrest is the act of apprehending and taking a person into custody (legal protection or control), usually because the person has been suspected of or observed committing a crime. After being taken into custody, the person can be questioned further and/or charged. An arrest is a procedure in a criminal justice system, sometimes it is also done after a court warrant for the arrest.

Police and various other officers have powers of arrest. In some places, a citizen's arrest is permitted; for example in England and Wales, any person can arrest "anyone whom he has reasonable grounds for suspecting to be committing, have committed or be guilty of committing an indictable offence", although certain conditions must be met before taking such action. Similar powers exist in France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Switzerland if a person is caught in an act of crime and not willing or able to produce valid ID.

As a safeguard against the abuse of power, many countries require that an arrest must be made for a thoroughly justified reason, such as the requirement of probable cause in the United States. Furthermore, in most democracies, the time that a person can be detained in custody is relatively short (in most cases 24 hours in the United Kingdom and 24 or 48 hours in the United States and France) before the detained person must be either charged or released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrest

Examples of use of Arrest

1. Prieksat is he‘d arrest you, he‘d arrest me, he‘d arrest his own mother," Ferris said.

2. Police have issued a European arrest warrant for his arrest.

3. You don‘t arrest and then find out if you have reason to arrest." Gov.

4. The arrest appeared to be separate from the arrest of the seven others.

5. "They are not under arrest or house arrest," the unnamed source told the respected monthly Cicero.