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arrest | ses |

Ses is likely misspelled.


Ses has no English definition.

As a noun arrest

is a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

As a verb arrest

is to stop the motion of (a person or animal).

arrest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A check, stop, an act or instance of something.
  • The condition of being stopped, standstill.
  • (legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
  • A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.
  • A device to physically arrest motion.
  • (nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.
  • (obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.
  • (farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.
    • (White)

    Derived terms

    * arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).
  • * Philips
    • Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .
  • (obsolete) To stay, remain.
    • (Spenser)
  • To stop (a process, course etc.).
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:
    • To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.
  • * 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
    • Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
  • To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.
    • The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I arrest thee of high treason.
  • To catch the attention of.
  • * 1919 : :
    • There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

    Derived terms

    * arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arresting

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    ses

    English

    ===(en)=== (en-initialism)
  • (Australia) , any of various state-based emergency service organisations, staffed by volunteers and operating within state legislation.
  • * 2005 , Michael Eburn, Emergency Law , page 101,
    • The SES in Western Australia is another operational arm of the Fire and Emergency Services Authority.
  • (US, Australia) , a high-ranking position classification of the civil service (public service).
  • * 1999 , Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh, John Wanna, Patrick Moray Weller, Public Sector Management in Australia: New Challenges, New Directions , page 152,
    • It has often been suggested that Australian governments by adopting the SES model are gradually following United States practice where senior levels of the public service are staffed by political appointments of the president.

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