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internment camp

noun

a prison camp for the confinement of prisoners of war, enemy aliens, political prisoners, etc.
a concentration camp for civilian citizens, especially those with ties to an enemy during wartime, as the camps established by the United States government to detain Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor attacks.

First recorded in 1915–20

After a few months, her mother was ordered to an internment camp.

He returned to London and was promptly arrested, as were many refugees, and sent to an internment camp.

To avoid the dreaded internment camp he had successfully passed as a Luxemburger.

Well, amongst these liberated captives was one who told a sad tale of starvation at his internment camp.

As for the supernumeraries, Bournef and the others, we shall have them stowed away in an internment-camp before a week is past.

And, like Jones, he refused to let a Nazi internment camp finish him off for good.

A cricket match was taking place near a German internment camp.

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