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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

assign, bring back, commend, commit, commit to prison, commitment, committal, confide, consign, consignment, delegate, enfeoff, entrust, extradite, extradition, give back, give in charge, give in trust, giving back, infeudate, institutionalize, mittimus, put back, recommit, recommitment, reddition, relegate, remandment, remit, remitter, rendition, repatriate, repatriation, restitution, restoration, restore, restoring, return, send back, send to jail, send up, sending back, take back, trust

Dictionary Results for remand:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

remand
    n 1: the act of sending an accused person back into custody to
         await trial (or the continuation of the trial)
    v 1: refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or
         authority or court for decision [syn: remit, remand,
         send back]
    2: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were
       imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for
       the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag,
       immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put
       away, remand]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Remand \Re*mand"\ (r?-m?nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Remanded; p.
   pr. & vb. n. Remanding.] [F. remander to send word again,
   L. remandare; pref. re- re- + mandare to commit, order, send
   word. See Mandate.]
   To recommit; to send back.
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         Remand it to its former place.           --South.
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         Then were they remanded to the cage again. --Bunyan.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Remand \Re*mand"\, n.
   The act of remanding; the order for recommitment.
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