labour camp
Britishnoun
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a penal colony involving forced labour
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a camp for migratory labourers
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Part of his captivity was spent in a labour camp for foreigners in which he was the only inmate.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2023
The former US marine, convicted as an American spy, has been serving time in a Russian labour camp.
From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2022
The nine were all transferred to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp for women in northern Germany, and then sent to work in a labour camp in Leipzig making armaments.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2022
It’s about Esther Rudomin, who was transported from Poland to a labour camp in Siberia by the Russian regime in 1941, along with her family, for being “capitalists”.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2020
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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