Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who incarcerates or shuts up in prison.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who incarcerates.

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  • noun A person who incarcerates

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Examples

  • It's no secret that the United States is the largest incarcerator in the world.

    Inimai Chettiar: Downsizing Incarceration is Good for Fairness, Safety, and our Wallets Inimai Chettiar 2012

  • This year marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S. war on drugs -- which has cost taxpayers more than a trillion dollars, transformed the U.S. into the largest incarcerator in the world, led to hundreds of thousands of overdose fatalities and HIV/AIDS transmissions, and created shocking racial disparities in the justice system.

    Tony Newman: Horses Are Not Going to Keep Drugs Out Of U.S. Tony Newman 2011

  • It's no secret that the United States is the largest incarcerator in the world.

    Inimai Chettiar: Downsizing Incarceration is Good for Fairness, Safety, and our Wallets Inimai Chettiar 2012

  • Is it any wonder the US has the dubious distinction of being the world's leading incarcerator?

    Laura W. Murphy: On The Cusp of History 2010

  • For a country that has recently earned the dubious distinction of being the number one incarcerator in the world, with fully one in every 31 American adults, or 7.3 million Americans, in prison, any administration that considers righteous prosecution for wrongdoing is in the wrong business when proposing hedges for dubious potential offenders while allowing proven offenders to walk scot free.

    Jayne Lyn Stahl: $50 Million for What? 2009

  • If Obama spends money the way he's planning to, he'll be known as the great incarcerator because we're all going to end up in debtor's prison.

    Bob Cesca: Lincoln, Obama and the Madness of Sean Hannity 2009

  • The sheriff calls himself an equal opportunity incarcerator.

    CNN Transcript Mar 10, 2004 2004

  • Garth had told his incarcerator, Cory, that he had learned cellular metamorphosis from the Antosians.

    Before Destruction Rossi, Michael 1991

  • Stuyvesant himself the incarcerator of Herman in a fort, and the most available period seemed to be subsequent to the capture of Dutch New

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • This year marks the 40th anniversary of the U.S. war on drugs -- which has cost taxpayers more than a trillion dollars, transformed the U.S. into the largest incarcerator in the world, led to hundreds of thousands of overdose fatalities and HIV/AIDS transmissions, and created shocking racial disparities in the justice system.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tony Newman 2011

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