prise de corps

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʁiz də kɔʁ/

Noun

prise de corps f (plural prises de corps)

  1. (law) committal (act of committing someone to confinement; order for someone's imprisonment)
  2. (law) apprehension, arrest (act of seizing someone, of arresting them)

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