連行|れんこうrenkou[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun, suru verb, transitive verbtaking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
   警察けいさつが容疑者ようぎしゃを尋問じんもんするために連行れんこうしていったよ。↗

   The police have hauled in a suspect for questioning.

• Related連れ込むつれこむCasualColloquial: taking someone inside a place, e.g. 「車に連れ込む」, or taking a lover to a hotel. 「連行」 is forcibly taking someone to a police station and restraining them.
• Related同行どうこうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Simply going together, a neutral expression: 「任意同行」 is voluntarily accompanying the police. 「連行」 implies force.
• Antonym解放かいほうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Freeing someone from restraint; broad in range, covering political and social liberation. Opposite of 「連行」 in restraining versus setting free.
• Antonym釈放しゃくほうWrittenWritten/formal prose. Releasing someone from custody — suspects, defendants, prisoners. The counterpart of 「連行」, which forcibly takes a person away and restrains them.

Use 「連行」 for the police or other authorities forcibly taking someone away against their will, as in 「警察に連行される」. For voluntarily going along with the police, say 「任意同行」; the opposite of 「連行」 is 「釈放」.

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1. 連れ立つれだっていくこと、一緒いっしょに行いく。
2. 本人ほんにんの意思いしにかかわらず、ある施設しせつに連つれて行いき、拘束こうそくすること。特とくに、警官けいかんが事件じけんの容疑者ようぎしゃを警察署けいさつしょ等とうに連つれて行いくこと、強制きょうせい連行れんこう。
3. 続つづけて行おこなう、連続れんぞくする。
4. （建築けんちく工学こうがく）液状えきじょうの流体りゅうたいに伴ともなって空気くうき等とうを混入こんにゅうさせること。