labor camp

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of labor camp¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

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

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Even as his own friends were dragged off in the night by the secret police, declared “enemies of the people,” and shipped to slave labor camps, Khrushchev continued to praise his boss.

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US authorities on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against Chen Zhi, a UK-Cambodian businessman accused of running forced labor camps in Cambodia where trafficked workers carried out cryptocurrency fraud schemes that netted billions of dollars.

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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.

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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.

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