labor camp
noun
1
: a penal colony where forced labor is performed
2
: a camp for migratory laborers
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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.
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Sonali Kolhatkar, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 May 2025
Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.
—Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
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Sonali Kolhatkar, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 27 May 2025
Those who survived the evacuation were sent to do agrarian work at labor camps in rural areas.
—Ray Cavanaugh, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2025
Perhaps Nasser would not have sent Brothers to prison, labor camps, and the gallows.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2018
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20camp. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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