communicado

They were not allowed to see an attorney and were kept "in communicado" as their excited friends called it.

Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes 1910

We grabbed a bite of lunch at a Vietnamese kiosk close by to the hotel and then went to buy a cell phone, so we could be communicado in that old-fashioned mode.

Beth Arnold: Jours of Our Lives: 1) The Bumpy Landing Beth Arnold 2010

We grabbed a bite of lunch at a Vietnamese kiosk close by to the hotel and then went to buy a cell phone, so we could be communicado in that old-fashioned mode.

Beth Arnold: Jours of Our Lives: 1) The Bumpy Landing Beth Arnold 2010

Then add a prolonged period of in-communicado detention-when torture is most likely to occur-that goes on and on.

Allen Keller: Making His List: Presidential Pardons and Torture 2009

While they were in the air and in communicado, air traffic controllers made repeated attempts to reach them on regular and emergency frequencies.

CNN Transcript Oct 24, 2009 2009

The family who ran Jade Mountain, the Second Avenue monument to old-school Chop Suey, has been relatively non communicado on the subject of their defunct business, brushing aside the public and press' inquiries about the closure.

Archive 2007-08-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2007

The family who ran Jade Mountain, the Second Avenue monument to old-school Chop Suey, has been relatively non communicado on the subject of their defunct business, brushing aside the public and press' inquiries about the closure.

Jade Mountain's Last Stand Brooks of Sheffield 2007

ROSENBAUM: Of holding people in communicado in the hell holes of places like Abu Ghraib, that's not acceptable.

CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2006 2006

It was concerting to see that she was communicado, and it nerved me that she was interested in a pareil like me….

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

It was concerting to see that she was communicado, and it nerved me that she was interested in a pareil like me….

No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003