labor camp

American  

noun

1. Also called slave labor camp.  a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.

2. a camp for the shelter of migratory farm workers.

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Etymology

Origin of labor camp

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

From there he was transferred to a labor camp, where breakfast was raw, ground horse meat.

From The Wall Street Journal

He met her mother—whose family survived Auschwitz—in a labor camp in Siberia.

From The Wall Street Journal

When the actor got the part in Frankenstein, he was finishing Australian auteur Justin Kurzel’s miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about World War II military prisoners in a Japanese labor camp.

From The Wall Street Journal

He’s even better as Irish coal-seller Bill Furlong, another man forced to fight his conscience when he discovers that his local convent doubles as a labor camp for unwed moms.

From Los Angeles Times

“Coming Home” is a visceral, harrowing account of what it’s like to be trapped inside Russia’s infamous criminal justice system, with its merciless judges and vast labor camps.

From New York Times