The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word INTERNMENT
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result INTERNMENT
- One after the other destined, it’s said, for detention
- Confinement among bird people ultimately unpleasant
- Detention of nationalist leader interrupts funeral
- Popular flier planned to avoid American in captivity
- In hearing, one after another, chaps with time in detention
- Precautionary measure, holding funeral without name
- Knight invading being put in grave captivity
- Temp, gutted, fated to confinement
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What does INTERNMENT mean?
INTERNMENT noun- Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.