work camp
Americannoun
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a camp for prisoners sentenced to labor, especially to outdoor labor such as roadbuilding or farming.
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a volunteer project in which members of a church, service organization, etc., work together in aid of some worthy cause.
noun
Etymology
Origin of work camp
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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Ben said nice things about us last week, so he’ll get a good bunk when he returns to the Surge’s work camp.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2025
In 1994, he faced a three-year sentence in a juvenile work camp until Boyle intervened.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024
His staging, on a set by Brett J. Banakis that’s part verdant hillside, part work camp, part podium, is fluid enough to cover many of the logical cracks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2022
Critics of the demolition, who have included former Prime Minister Andrej Babis, argue Lety was not a concentration camp but a work camp.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2022
They had said that it was only a work camp.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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