Detain vs Laojiao - What's the difference?
detain | laojiao |
Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
To put under custody.
To keep back or from; to withhold.
* Jeremy Taylor
A system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China in which penal labour is done for a small salary, generally used to detain people who have committed minor crimes.
As a verb detain
is keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.As a noun laojiao is
a system of administrative detentions in the people's republic of china in which penal labour is done for a small salary, generally used to detain people who have committed minor crimes.detain
English
Verb
(en verb)- Detain not the wages of the hireling.