tent city

[tent sit-ee]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Thirty-one year old Montaser Masoud told me he had joined al-Astal's new tent city two months ago with his wife and four children, crossing the Yellow Line at night to avoid Hamas, and after coordination with Israeli forces.

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His group is small - maybe tens of fighters - but is increasingly confident, and runs a well-supplied tent city near Khan Younis.

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“Not only was he corrupt, he was a killer,” the 93-year-old, infamous for racially profiling Latinos and housing them in a “tent city,” told me.

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“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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Related Words

• encampment 
• tent