incommunicado
adjective/ˌɪnkəˌmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
/ˌɪnkəˌmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
- without communicating with other people, because you are not allowed to or because you do not want to
- The prisoner has been held incommunicado for more than a week.
- She spent her fortieth birthday incommunicado, in Scotland.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIncommunicado is used with these nouns:- detention
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar ‘deprive of communication’.
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