収しゅう容よう

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Common wordJLPTN1Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

収容する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

General term for taking people or things into a facility: housing refugees, admitting patients, seating an audience, or storing goods.

Related words

収しゅう納のう sense 1
収納 focuses on putting things away in a storage space, while 収容 emphasizes a facility's capacity to hold people or items.
保ほ管かんN1sense 1
保管 means keeping something safely in custody or storage, whereas 収容 is broader and includes housing people as well as things.
拘こう置ち sense 2
拘置 is the specific legal term for detaining a suspect before trial, while 収容 is a general word for confining people in any kind of facility.
抑よく留りゅう sense 2
抑留 stresses forcibly detaining people (often foreigners or POWs) against their will, whereas 収容 is a neutral term for admitting or holding people in a facility.
入にゅう所しょ
収容 emphasizes being housed or confined in a facility from an institutional or administrative viewpoint, while 入所 focuses on the individual's act of entering.

Don't confuse with

収しゅう用よう
収用 (same reading as 収容) means the compulsory expropriation of land or property by the government, a completely different meaning from 収容's sense of housing or detaining.
収しゅう納のう
収容 means accommodating or holding people/things within a capacity (e.g. a stadium's seating), while 収納 means putting objects away into storage.
受じゅ容よう
収容 means to accommodate or house (people, objects) in a facility, while 受容 means to psychologically or socially accept something; the words sound similar but differ in meaning.