labor camp

noun

1
: a penal colony where forced labor is performed
2
: a camp for migratory laborers

Examples of labor camp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In Idaho, a $1.5 million grant from Mellon is supporting the physical preservation of El Milagro, a labor camp built by the Farm Security Administration in 1939 that housed migrant workers from around the U.S. and the world. Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024 Helgoland and Borkum were labor camps run by the Nazis’ civil and military engineering arm. Claire Moses, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2024 In the past, juveniles would be sent to labor camps rather than prison, and punishment mostly did not exceed five years. Stella Kim, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2024 Not even the coming Red Terror, the labor camps, the show trials, and Siberian exiles could curb Edmund Wilson’s infatuation with Lenin. Elizabeth Powers, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023 Like Dreier, Herz-Sommer played music when she was imprisoned at Theresienstadt, a concentration camp that was a transfer point for Jews heading to death and labor camps. Sydney Page, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024 One is the feminist scholar and underground filmmaker Ai Xiaoming, whose films explore disadvantaged groups in Chinese society, such as farmers, rape victims, and labor camp inmates. Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023 Forty-three people were arrested; three were executed and the rest sent to labor camps. Ian Johnson, Foreign Affairs, 19 Dec. 2023 The penal colony is a successor to a Gulag labor camp, established there for prison workers building a railway across the Russian Arctic, ordered by Stalin, but never finished in full. Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of labor camp was in 1900

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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20camp. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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