Meanings
plural remands
- countableuncountableThe 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 1391 more example
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 - countableuncountableThe 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
present singular third person remands · participle present remanding · participle past remanded · past remanded
- transitivelawTo send a prisoner back to custody.
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 52 more examples
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 74A 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 - transitivelawTo send a case back to a lower court for further consideration.
- obsoletetransitiveTo 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
Synonyms & antonyms
verbrefer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
verblock up or confine, in or as in a jail
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinremandare“to order”
- Late Latinremandare“to send backward”
- Middle Frenchremander“to send back”
- Middle Englishremaunden“to send back”
- Englishremand
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.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Cantonese 還押 /还押
- 還押 /还押 (waan⁴ aat³)send a prisoner back to custody
Chinese Mandarin 還押 /还押
- 還押 /还押 (waan4 aat3)sending an accused person back into custody
Czech vrácení do vyšetřovací vazby
- vrácení do vyšetřovací vazbysending an accused person back into custody
Dutch verwijzen
- verwijzensending a matter back to a lower court
Finnish palauttaminen, palauttaminen
- palauttaminensending an accused person back into custody
- palauttaminensending a matter back to a lower court
- palauttaasend a prisoner back to custody
- palauttaasend a case back to a lower court
French maintien (en détention préventive), renvoi (devant une autre cour)
- maintien (en détention préventive)sending an accused person back into custody
- renvoi (devant une autre cour)sending a matter back to a lower court
- maintenirsend a prisoner back to custody
- renvoyersend a case back to a lower court
German Präventivhaft, Zurückverweisung
- Präventivhaftsending an accused person back into custody
- Zurückverweisungsending a matter back to a lower court
- zurückverweisensend a case back to a lower court
Hungarian előzetes letartóztatás, vizsgálati fogság
- előzetes letartóztatássending a matter back to a lower court
- vizsgálati fogságsending a matter back to a lower court
Norwegian Bokmål varetekstfengsling, varetekstarrest
- varetekstfengslingsending an accused person back into custody
- varetekstarrestsending an accused person back into custody
Romanian arest preventiv
- arest preventivsending a matter back to a lower court
Spanish remandar, remandar
- remandarsend a prisoner back to custody
- remandarsend a case back to a lower court
Swedish återförvisning, återförvisa
- återförvisningsending a matter back to a lower court
- återförvisasend a case back to a lower court
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with remand
Anagrams
Cite this entry
remand. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remand
“remand.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remand. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “remand,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/remand.
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