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(Noun) An enforced but sometimes-brief-and/or-minor confinement.

Usage: Students forced to stay after school are in detention, so are people who create a minor disturbance - as the administrators/police decide what to do. Can lead to nothing/a warning/expulsion/arrest, etc.

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(Noun) have to stay in school after dismissal as punishment

Usage: The teacher yelled at me for disrupting class and gave me detention for a week.

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(Noun) A stupid thing teachers do when they're mad at you.

Usage: "your going to detention right now billy!!! "

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