a camp for the accommodation of internees, esp during wartime
internment camp in American English
noun
a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc
Word origin
[1915–20]This word is first recorded in the period 1915–20. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: GI, costar, feedback, markup, takeout
Examples of 'internment camp' in a sentence
internment camp
He is reported to have suffered repeated ill-health in the internment camp.
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He asked to go back to internment camp instead of prison.
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After their departure, their parents and grandmother were sent to an internment camp.
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They were thrown into an internment camp to await deportation.
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This time he escaped with others, crawling through a tunnel they had dug under the fence of the internment camp.
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The move came as details emerged yesterday of desperate conditions in the internment camps.
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The family was split up and put in internment camps.
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Many were youths smuggled out of the internment camps, often only hours before their parents were deported.
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On the eve of war, police were rounding up known leftist sympathisers and placing them in internment camps.
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Senior international aid figures said yesterday that about 1,400 people a week are dying at one of the big internment camps.