収容|しゅうようshuuyou[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbaccommodation; taking in; receiving; housing; seating; admission (of patients, students, etc.)
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbimprisonment; detention; internment
- noun, suru verb, transitive verbcontaining (e.g. words in a dictionary); adding
Conjugation
| Dictionary form | 収容する（しゅうようする） |
|---|---|
| Polite (masu) | 収容します（しゅうようします） |
| Negative (nai) | 収容しない（しゅうようしない） |
| polite (masen) | 収容しません（しゅうようしません） |
| classical zu / nu | 収容せず・収容せぬ（しゅうようせず・しゅうようせぬ） |
| Past (ta) | 収容した（しゅうようした） |
| polite (mashita) | 収容しました（しゅうようしました） |
| Past negative (nakatta) | 収容しなかった（しゅうようしなかった） |
| polite (masen deshita) | 収容しませんでした（しゅうようしませんでした） |
| Te form | 収容して（しゅうようして） |
| Potential | 収容できる（しゅうようできる） |
| Passive | 収容される（しゅうようされる） |
| Causative | 収容させる（しゅうようさせる） |
| Causative passive | 収容させられる（しゅうようさせられる） |
| Conditional (ba) | 収容すれば（しゅうようすれば） |
| tara | 収容したら（しゅうようしたら） |
| Volitional | 収容しよう（しゅうようしよう） |
| polite (mashou) | 収容しましょう（しゅうようしましょう） |
| Imperative | 収容しろ（しゅうようしろ） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Synonym受け入れるうけいれるNeutralA verb for accepting people or opinions, with the nuance of agreeing to take them in; 「収容」 focuses on physically placing people or things in a facility.
- Synonym抑留よくりゅうWrittenWritten term for detaining foreigners or prisoners of war; 「収容」 also covers hospital admission and sheltering people.
- Related閉じ込めるとじこめるNeutralMeans shutting someone or something inside so it cannot get out; 「収容」 also covers hospitals and shelters taking people in.
- Related拘束こうそくNeutralRefers to restricting someone's physical freedom; 「収容」 focuses on taking people into a facility rather than on restraint itself.
- Related監禁かんきんNeutralMeans confining someone somewhere, depriving them of freedom; 「収容」 focuses on housing people in a facility — the difference is not legality.
- Related禁足きんそくWrittenWritten-style word for confining someone indoors, forbidding them to go out; 「収容」 focuses on taking people into a facility.
- Related封じ込めるふうじこめるNeutralMeans sealing something in, and figuratively containing or suppressing something bad; 「収容」 centers on taking people or things into a facility.
- Related封じ込むふうじこむNeutralA verb meaning to trap someone or something so it cannot escape; 「収容」 focuses on taking people or things into a facility.
- Related留め置くとめおくNeutralA verb for detaining people or things, or holding mail; 「収容」 focuses on taking people or things into a facility.
- Antonym放出ほうしゅつNeutralAntonym on the intake-versus-release axis: it means releasing or discharging what has been taken in.
- Antonym退去たいきょWrittenAntonym on the entering-versus-leaving axis: it means leaving or withdrawing from a place.
Use 「収容」 for taking people or things into a hospital, shelter or other facility, as in 「収容人数」, and for containing dictionary entries; use 「受け入れる」 for accepting people or opinions, 「閉じ込める」 for shutting in, and 「監禁」 for confinement. Antonyms: 「放出」 (release) and 「退去」 (departure).
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