1. Refer (a matter or legal case) to another committee or authority or court for decision
   "The judge remanded the case to the lower court for review";
   - remit, send back
    
2. (law) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
   "The suspects were remanded without trial";
   - imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug [N. Amer, informal], gaol [Brit], put away, prison [archaic]

1. The act of sending an accused person back into custody to await trial (or the continuation of the trial)
   "The judge ordered a remand of the suspect pending further investigation"

Derived forms: remanded, remanding, remands

Type of: challenge, confine, detain, return

Encyclopedia: Remand