La palabra del día: Arresto

Masculine noun. In Legal Spanish arresto is a provisional detention of the accused in a criminal matter or a deprivation of liberty for a short time, as a correction or penalty. E.g.: El arresto del sospechoso salió en las noticias: The detention of the suspect was on the news.
The verb is arrestar: to make an arrest. dc


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