What is the synonym of jailed?

In this page you can discover 27 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for jailed, like: arrested, captive, arrest, confined, imprisoned, immured, lagged, incarcerated, sentenced, penned and kept.

What does the word jailed mean?

(jāl) 1. A place of detention, especially for persons who are accused of committing a crime and have not been released on bail or for persons who are serving short sentences after conviction of a misdemeanor.

What can I say instead of unemployed?

What is another word for unemployed?

jobless	idle
unengaged	out-of-work
between jobs	out of a job
out of work	without gainful employment
not working	on the bench

What are British jails called?

Indeed the spelling in British English is now jail with gaol as a lowly placed variant. The spelling jail is the most common spelling now in Australian English.

Is jail time one word?

(US) A prison / jail sentence.

Is Jailee a word?

One who is jailed; a prisoner.

How do you say I’m not working?

Other ways to say you’re out of work involve saying what you are doing: Well right now I’m spending a lot of time with my family. Right now I’m spending a lot of my time writing a book/studying/taking language classes. I’m looking for work in accounting.

What do we call people with no job?

Such a person is referred to as an “Idler” or a “Loafer”. He is a person who avoids work or spends time in an aimless or lazy way.

Is jail American or British?

The terms are synonymous in American English. In British English jail is a common phonetic misspelling of gaol. @Keith it’s not a misspelling, the two forms came into Middle English at about the same time from the Normal gaiole and the French jaole. The pronunciation merged, but neither is a misspelling of the other.

Why is jail called the Nick?

6 Answers. Nick refers both to a prison cell and to the process of a police officer arresting someone. I suspect that the slang nick meaning to steal led to this meaning as arresting is taking someone away which, in turn, led to the slang for a prison cell.

Is jail time a Scrabble word?

No, jailtime is not in the scrabble dictionary.

What does jail time mean?

: to be in a prison for a period of time : to serve all or part of a prison sentence He has been doing time in a federal penitentiary.