Definition of Detentist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detentist

detent
detente
detented
detentes
detenting
detention
detention basin
detention camp
detention cell
detention centre
detention centres
detention home
detention homes
detention house
detentions
detentist (current term)
detentists
detents
detenu
detenue
detenues
detenus
deter
deterge
deterged
detergence
detergencies
detergency
detergent
detergent builder

Literary usage of Detentist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Security Awareness in the 1980s: Featured Articles From Security Awareness (1992)
"Their goal is to appeal to wishful, detentist elements in the West by posing the rhetorical question: "Why should you spend such burdensome sums of money ..."

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