tent city

[tent sit-ee]

noun

1. an area set up with tents, especially to house unsheltered, homeless, or displaced people.

Example Sentences

“Maybe next week we’ll be able to go back,” Qudaih said from Al Mawasi, an overcrowded tent city along the beach in the southern Gaza Strip.

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Over the last few weeks, a massive tent city has risen at the Orange County base — about 25 miles southeast of downtown L.A.

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One involves a tent city in the desert that hides a portal to an extrajudicial jail for his enemies, both interstellar and domestic.

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The facility, dubbed “Alligator Auschwitz” by critics, is a 3,000-bed tent city and prison in the Everglades.

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Tent City during the 'Year of the Mud' of 1997.

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Related Words

• encampment 
• tent