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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The writer and human rights activist served 17 years in a forced labour camp during the rule of the notorious communist dictator, Enver Hoxha.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
Convicted as an American spy, Paul Whelan is preparing to spend Christmas in a Russian labour camp as talks to negotiate his release have faltered.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2020
He had to go to a labour camp for fighting for what he believed in.”
From The Guardian ● Nov. 16, 2019
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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