Alexander Acosta, when he was the U.S. attorney in Miami, agreed in 2008 to an Epstein guilty plea agreement under which he served 13 months in a local stockade, but was freed half of most days to go to work at his office.
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Stockade
//ˌstɒˈkeɪd//
Synonyms for "stockade" (114 found)
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Closest matches (23)
Strong matches (34)
Related words (57)
glacisguardhouseguardroomhoosegowhouse of correctionhouse of detentionindustrial schoolinternment campjailjailhousejugkeeplabor camplockuploopholelunettemachicolationmanteletmaximum-security prisonmerlon
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minimum-security prisonmoundoublietteoutworkpalisadeparadosparapetpenpenal colonypenal institutionpenal settlementpenitentiaryportcullispostern gatepow campprisonprison campprisonhouserampartravelinredanredoubtreform schoolreformatorysally portscarpsconcesponging housestate prisontenaillethe holetollboothtraining schoolvallationvallumwallwork
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Translations
50 translations across 26 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- հաուպտվախտա noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Belarusian
1 entries- гаўптва́хта noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Bulgarian
2 entries- ка́рцер noun (a military prison (colloquial))
- огра́да от колове noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 圍欄 /围栏 noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- 柵欄 /栅栏 noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- 禁閉室 /禁闭室 noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Czech
3 entries- hradba z kůlů noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- kůlová ohrada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- palisáda noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Dutch
1 entries- palissade noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Finnish
2 entries- paalulinnake noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- putka noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Galician
1 entries- estacada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Georgian
1 entries- ჰაუპტვახტი noun (a military prison (colloquial))
German
4 entries- Einfriedung aus Palisaden noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- Palisade noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- Palisadeneinfriedung noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- Palisadenmauer noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Irish
3 entries- bábhún noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- pailis noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- sonnach noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Italian
4 entries- enclave protetta da palizzata noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- palizzata noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- prigione noun (a military prison (colloquial))
- prigione militare noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Kazakh
1 entries- гауптвахта noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Kyrgyz
1 entries- гауптвахта noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Māori
3 entries- pā tūwatawata noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- rāihe noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- takitaki noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kakebu noun (a military prison (colloquial))
- vaktarrest noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شرانپول noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Russian
4 entries- гауптва́хта noun (a military prison (colloquial))
- губа́ noun (a military prison (colloquial))
- палиса́д noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- частоко́л noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- palisada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Spanish
4 entries- empalizada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- estacada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- palizada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- vallada noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Swedish
2 entries- palissad noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
- pålverk noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Tagalog
1 entries- pimpin noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Tajik
1 entries- ҳауптвахта noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Turkish
1 entries- şarampol noun (an enclosure protected by a wall of wooden posts)
Ukrainian
1 entries- гауптва́хта noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Uzbek
1 entries- gauptvaxta noun (a military prison (colloquial))
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
The thief was thrown into the stockade to await trial.
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