留め置き・留置き・止置き・止め置き|とめおきtomeoki[0]heiban (flat)

1. noundetention; keeping; retaining
2. nounmail held at the post office

• Synonym拘置こうちWrittenWritten legal term for holding suspects, defendants, or convicted people in a detention house; 「留め置き」 is general keeping, and also mail held at the post office.
• Synonym拘留こうりゅうWrittenWritten legal term: seizing and holding someone, or a short penalty of 1–29 days; more technical than 「留め置き」.
• Synonym抑留よくりゅうWrittenWritten term for holding foreigners or ships, or interning prisoners of war, as in 「シベリア抑留」.
• Synonym拘禁こうきんWrittenWritten legal term covering confinement in general; narrower and heavier than the broad 「留め置き」.
• Synonym勾留こうりゅうWrittenWritten criminal-procedure term: holding a suspect before trial to prevent flight or destruction of evidence.
• Synonym身柄拘束みがらこうそくWrittenPolice and similar authorities restricting a person's freedom; stresses physical control of the person; common in news reports.
• Synonym検束けんそくWrittenWritten word for forcibly controlling someone's movements; once meant police detention, now occasionally used for police taking someone in.
• Related禁錮きんこWrittenA penalty of imprisonment without forced labour; formerly an official penalty name, merged into 「拘禁刑」 from 2025; unrelated to temporary keeping.
• Related投獄とうごくWrittenWritten word for putting someone in prison; stresses the act of entering prison, often with historical or political overtones.
• Related幽閉ゆうへいWrittenConfining someone in a closed space so they cannot leave; found mostly in historical writing and fiction.
• Related収監しゅうかんWrittenWritten legal term for taking someone into prison once their sentence is final; common in news reports.
• Related禁獄きんごくWrittenOld-fashioned word for locking someone in prison, now rare; say 「投獄」 or 「収監」 instead.
• Related幽囚ゆうしゅうWrittenArchaic and rare: the state of being imprisoned, or a prisoner.

Use 「留め置き」 for keeping something temporarily or for mail held at the post office. In legal contexts, pretrial detention is 「勾留」 and the short penalty is 「拘留」; for imprisonment use 「収監」.

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1. 留め置とめおくこと。
2. 物ものを支配下しはいかに留め置とめおくこと。
3. 罪つみをおかした疑うたがいのある者ものを警察署けいさつしょに拘束こうそくして留め置とめおくこと。