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transit camp

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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

He was referring to the Gashora transit camp, which we visit on a hot Thursday afternoon.

From BBC Dec. 8, 2023

Only 22 percent of all respondents were able to identify Westerbork, a transit camp in the eastern Netherlands where Jews, including Anne Frank, were sent before being deported.

From Seattle Times Jan. 24, 2023

On June 20, 1943, Ms. Pick-Goslar and her family were arrested in a roundup and taken to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

From Washington Post Nov. 3, 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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