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remand en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɹəˈmænd/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹɪˈmɑːnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The act of sending an accused person back into custody whilst awaiting trial.
    • As earlier stated, remand in custody under the new Code is an exceptional measure. 2007, Andrew Ewang Sone, Readings in the Cameroon Criminal Procedure Code, page 139:
    • On arrest and unable to obtain bail, could mean that a person may be held in remand prison for six months or more. 1983 December 31, Gary Phillips, “Gays in Gaol [Jail]: Who Cares”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 24, page 15:
  2. (countable, uncountable) The act of an appellate court sending a matter back to a lower court for review or disposal.
    • If remand is based on a failure of federal subject matter jurisdiction or a shortcoming in the process of removal, the remand becomes effective even earlier […] 2010, Steven Baicker-McKee, John B. Corr, A Student's Guide to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, page 102:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
remands Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

remand centre · remand home

Translations (19)

cs vrácení do vyšetřovací vazby (sending an accused person back into custody) · hu vizsgálati fogság (sending a matter back to a lower court) · fr maintien (en détention préventive) (sending an accused person back into custody) · gv cur er ash (sending an accused person back into custody) · nb varetekstfengsling (sending an accused person back into custody) · gv aachur (sending an accused person back into custody) · de Präventivhaft (sending an accused person back into custody) · gv cur er ash (sending a matter back to a lower court) · de Zurückverweisung (sending a matter back to a lower court) · fi palauttaminen (sending a matter back to a lower court) · hu előzetes letartóztatás (sending a matter back to a lower court) · nb varetekstarrest (sending an accused person back into custody) · cmn 還押 /还押 (sending an accused person back into custody) · ro arest preventiv (sending a matter back to a lower court) · sv återförvisning (sending a matter back to a lower court) · fr renvoi (devant une autre cour) (sending a matter back to a lower court) · nl verwijzen (sending a matter back to a lower court) · fi palauttaminen (sending an accused person back into custody) · gv aachur (sending a matter back to a lower court)

remand en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɹəˈmænd/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio
  • /ɹɪˈmɑːnd/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English remaunden (“to send back”), from Middle French remander (“to send back”), from Late Latin remandare (“to send backward”), from Latin remandare (“to order”). Compare countermand.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To send a prisoner back to custody.
    • A former member of the radical anti-capitalist Baader-Meinhof gang arrested in Berlin last week after 30 years on the run has been remanded in custody over three violent attacks in the 1990s. 2024 March 7, “Daniela Klette of Baader-Meinhof gang remanded in custody”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
    • The number of days for which the offender was remanded in custody in connection with the offence or a related offence is to count as time served by the offender as part of the sentence. 2019, Martin Wasik, Core Statutes on Criminal Justice and Sentencing 2019-20, page 74:
    • Mr. Goodstein has described the majority of leaders of the gay movement as "neurotics" who should be remanded to the "counseling couches where they belong." 1976 February 7, “A Liberation Publication?”, in Gay Community News, volume 3, number 32, page 5:
  2. (transitive) To send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To send back.
    • Remand it to its former place. 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:

Forms

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remands Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
remanded Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
remanded Tense=Past lexicographic
remanding Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

remandment · on remand · remandable · remandee · unremanded

Translations (9)

fi palauttaa (send a case back to a lower court) · sv återförvisa (send a case back to a lower court) · fi palauttaa (send a prisoner back to custody) · de zurückverweisen (send a case back to a lower court) · fr maintenir (send a prisoner back to custody) · es remandar (send a case back to a lower court) · yue 還押 /还押 (send a prisoner back to custody) · fr renvoyer (send a case back to a lower court) · es remandar (send a prisoner back to custody)