labor camp

noun

Updated on: 10 Apr 2018

Definition of labor camp

1 : a penal colony where forced labor is performed

2 : a camp for migratory laborers

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Kalmanovich was deported and worked to death in a slave-labor camp but his son, Shalom Lurie, on a kibbutz in Israel, later edited and published his father’s diary.

— ruth r. wisse, WSJ, "To Appreciate Freedom, Remember Slavery," 29 Mar. 2018
He was caught in 2004, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced in 2006 to 13 years in a labor camp for treason.

— fred weir, The Christian Science Monitor, "Russia eyed in UK spy poisoning case. But why would the Kremlin do it?," 12 Mar. 2018
Conditions in North Korean prisons or forced labor camps are often inhumane.

— jim michaels, USA TODAY, "Trump-Kim summit: Will it happen and other key questions," 11 Mar. 2018
Her father and brother were forced into labor camps, leaving the children alone with their overwhelmed mother.

— oscar corral, miamiherald, "She started painting nails in a salon. Now this Vietnam War refugee has a franchise," 1 Feb. 2018
The inmates were willing to eat anything, attests Katz, a native of a small Carpathian Mountain town in present-day Ukraine who had been working in Budapest when he was taken to a labor camp in 1943 and then transferred to Mauthausen.

— olivia b. waxman, Time, "'We Weren't Prepared for This.' Inside the Accidental Liberation of a Concentration Camp," 26 Jan. 2018
Valdez drove his tortillas out to labor camps in Caldwell, Parma, Marsing and Wilder.

— john sowell, idahostatesman, "Casa Valdez has cranked out tortillas for 41 years. Now, owner is calling it quits," 23 Jan. 2018
The idea of the government seizing all the nation's farmland or forcing Americans into labor camps is without basis--except in Hollywood.

— Popular Mechanics, "The Evidence: Debunking FEMA Camp Myths," 26 Dec. 2014
The labor camp overseer at first seems sympathetic to Hodel, only to reveal an abusive, venal nature.

— jean zimmerman, New York Times, "The Story of Louisa Alcott’s Baby Sister, and Other Characters From Literature’s Sidelines," 29 Sep. 2017

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First Known Use of labor camp

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