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Definition of 'prison yard'

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prison yard in British English

(ˈprɪzən jɑːd)
noun
a piece of enclosed ground attached to a prison, where prisoners may take exercise at certain times
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The following day, the remaining inmates were ordered into the prison yard.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The pyramid tottered and swayed around the prison yard till it came to the wall.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Their high-stakes adventure skips between key events in the prison yard and the increasingly labyrinthine escape itself.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
High security prison documents can be seen in the background and there is even an open window overlooking a prison yard.
The Sun (2010)
By heightening and widening the wall that surrounds the field, he turns it into a prison yard.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It is thought that the plan was to hover close to an inmate's window or drop items into the prison yard.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He would have braved snow flurries to exercise twice for an hour in the prison yard.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
His characters shamble through his tunes like inmates in the prison yard, full of groundless certainties and rational superstitions.
Globe and Mail (2003)
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