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transit camp

British  

noun

  1. a camp in which refugees, soldiers, etc, live temporarily before moving to another destination

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher.

From Barron's Nov. 14, 2025

While waiting at the interim transit camp in the United Arab Emirates, he asked for writing supplies for the children so he could teach them English before they arrived in the U.S.,

From Seattle Times Jul. 7, 2023

He was interned in Westerbork, a former Nazi transit camp then in use as a prison for collaborators.

From Washington Post Dec. 20, 2022

His images would be the final portraits of many of these people, who were among 5,500 sent that day from Amsterdam to Westerbork transit camp, and then on to “the east.”

From New York Times Jul. 29, 2022

The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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