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A detainee is someone the authorities are keeping in a prison, a camp, or a police cell — often without a full trial, and often because of their political views. News writers use detainee when they do not want to say prisoner or criminal, because those words already decide that the person did something wrong. A detainee may only be held, waiting. It is a formal, official word; you will hear it on the news, not much in daily chat. Though actually, people also use it more loosely for anyone the police are holding, even for a short time, not only for political cases.
被拘留者（新聞用語；還不一定是已定罪的囚犯）
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
detaineenoun/ˌdɪteɪˈniː/
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Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
- In his statement, Miliband said the two flights had refuelled at Diego Garcia. Each one had a single detainee on board who did not leave the aircraft.
- Louis Louaillier, a U.S. citizen, journalist, and assemblymember, wrote in his local newspaper, The Louisiana Courier, that detainees should go to a civil judge...
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。