What does under arrest mean?
Under arrest means (transitive) To arrest at a disproportionately low rate..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To arrest at a disproportionately low rate..
Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?
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Under arrest means (transitive) To arrest at a disproportionately low rate..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include overarrest.
Sorry, I’m Italian, and let’s say I see that Sicilian policemen arrest less people in Sicily. This could be for two reasons, one is that everybody else overarrests, or the Sicilian policemen underarrest. And can you tell those two things apart?
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