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question
   1. to arrest
   Police jargon, much used when publicizing particulars of a suspect to avoid the legal implications of a direct assertion of guilt. If the police announce that they would like to question someone corresponding with your description, you should take an overnight bag to the interview.
   2. a persistent problem to which there appears to be no answer
   Common political usage:
    I have always expressed my belief that the present Parliament and Government would fail to settle the Irish land question. (Kee, 1993, quoting Parnell from 1881)
   Such a question, in German and French as well as English, may also concern matters to which allusive reference may be thought preferable, especially during the Second World War:
    One of [Mitterrand's] friends... held a leading position in the Paris office of the Commisariat-Général aux Questions Juives, the Vichy agency charged with hunting down Jews, listing them for deportation and, in due course, looting their property. (Sunday Telegraph, 2 October 1994)

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