2006-11-26 06:48:29 · 13 answers · asked by shafquat a 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
According to Encarta Dictionary, an inmate is someone who is confined either to a prison or to a psychiatric hospital.
2006-11-26 06:59:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-23 05:03:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An inmate of a building is one who occupies or dwells within it. A person's inmates are those who share the same dwelling-house. The word came to be used to refer to temporary inhabitants such as guests in a hotel, students in an on-campus dormitory, patients in a hospital, or prisoners.
Perhaps around 1970, television journalists began to use the word as a euphemism for "prisoner", and today perhaps many young people cannot remember that it ever had any other meaning.
2006-11-26 06:50:15 · answer #3 · answered by workingclasshero 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the meaning is people who live in the jail or prison, they are called inmates
2006-11-26 06:56:36 · answer #4 · answered by trudycaulfield 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A person who is currently serving time in a local, state, or federal prison or penitentiary
2006-11-26 06:49:32 · answer #5 · answered by DonSoze 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Someone who is placed in an institution of some kind for an
extended period of time.
Thank you very much, while you're up.
2006-11-26 07:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by producer_vortex 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a person confined in an institution (as a prison or hospital)
2006-11-26 06:50:04 · answer #7 · answered by Cassi 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An incarcerated person
2006-11-26 06:50:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Someone who is in a prison
2006-11-26 06:49:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A person in jail.
2006-11-26 07:17:19 · answer #10 · answered by dancinintherain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋