大たい獄ごく

noun

roundup; wholesale arrest

Refers to a large-scale, often politically motivated, mass arrest or roundup of people. The term carries a historical or dramatic weight and is not used for ordinary police operations.

• 幕ばく末まつの大たい獄ごくで多おおくの志し士しが捕とらえられた。

  Many patriots were arrested in the mass roundup at the end of the Edo period.

• その政せい権けんは反はん対たい派はの大たい獄ごくを行おこなった。

  The regime carried out a wholesale arrest of the opposition.