labour camp
Britishnoun
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a penal colony involving forced labour
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a camp for migratory labourers
Example Sentences
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Lety was originally established by the Czechoslovak government two weeks before the Nazi occupation in March 1939, as a labour camp for "workshy citizens".
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2022
"Why can't they be certain? They should make sure that there is no linkage between any labour camp and that company," she told the BBC.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2020
In June, a 24-year-old labourer from Nepal, Rupchandra Rumba, died gasping for breath in a squalid labour camp on the outskirts of Doha.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2019
She spent her childhood during the Second World War in a labour camp in Siberia, and for the rest of her life she credited God and her Catholic faith for saving her and her family.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 30, 2018
Fritz having killed the mule, it devolved upon the village Sanitary Inspector to see the carcass decently interred, and on application to the C.O. of the nearest Chinese labour camp.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 7, 1917 by Various
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