incommunicado
pronunciation
How to pronounce incommunicado in British English:
UK [ˌɪnkəˌmju:nɪˈkɑ:dəʊ]
How to pronounce incommunicado in American English:
US [ˌɪnkəˌmjunɪˈkɑdoʊ]
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- Adjective:
- without the means or right to communicate
Word Origin
- incommunicado (adj./adv.)
- 1844, American English, from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar "deprive of communication," from in- "not" + comunicar "communicate," from Latin communicare "to share, impart" (see communication).
Example
- 1. He is currently held incommunicado them .
- 2. He has been held incommunicado at an undisclosed location as beijing police investigate him for suspected economic crimes .
- 3. Prolonged incommunicado detention can in itself be a form of cruel , inhuman or degrading treatment .
- 4. Inmates are held incommunicado , without visits , food parcels , letters or radio .
- 5. Politically , countries have been alienated by a string of human-rights issues , from an australian mining executive arrested and held incommunicado for seven months to a british man widely regarded in the west as mentally ill being executed for drug trafficking .