prison camp
Americannoun
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a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
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a camp for less dangerous prisoners assigned to outdoor work, usually for the government.
Etymology
Origin of prison camp
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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His father fought in World War II and spent more than three years in a Japanese prison camp, after which he returned to Malaya and later settled in the south of England.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
This is a prison camp that does not house sex offenders, nor those with the 20-year sentence Maxwell has.
From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025
"I'm absolutely devastated because all I see is what is like a prison wall at the end of my garden, so it is like being in a prison camp," she says.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2025
Written in 1946 by a young French composer released from a Nazi prison camp, the hourlong song cycle for very dramatic soprano and piano reimagines Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as exotic Peruvian lovers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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