internment camp
Americannoun
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a prison camp for the confinement of prisoners of war, enemy aliens, political prisoners, etc.
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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.
Etymology
Origin of internment camp
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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"And the Everglades internment camp even more so," he said.
From BBC
By 1940, new policies ordered all German nationals - Jewish or not - into internment camps.
From BBC
Furutani said he didn’t even know there had been internment camps until he went to college.
From Los Angeles Times
During the war, she and her family had been incarcerated in an internment camp in Wyoming; after, her parents returned to California, and she went to New York.
From New York Times
Service personnel captured in conflict became prisoners of war, and civilians were confined in internment camps if they were believed to be a threat to the state.
From BBC
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