labor camp
Americannoun
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Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
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a camp for the shelter of migratory farm workers.
Etymology
Origin of labor camp
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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He met her mother—whose family survived Auschwitz—in a labor camp in Siberia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025
According to U.S. officials, King - who chose to serve his time at a labor camp rather than pay the nearly $4,000 fine - has been declared AWOL.
From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023
Her family lived in a labor camp, sleeping in milk barns before eventually moving into a shotgun house in Lemoore.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023
Mr. Helfgott was sent to Schlieben, a Buchenwald sub-camp, leaving his father behind, before spending his final weeks in captivity at the Theresienstadt labor camp and ghetto in Czechoslovakia.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023
At a migrant labor camp not far from Duke, Farmer met a Belgian nun, Julianna DeWolf, who worked with Friends of the United Farm Workers.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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