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

Each experiment ended, or is still ending, in a famine, a labor camp, or both. — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2026

The Nazis conscripted her father and forced him to work at a labor camp. — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

The book was begun in 1948, in the relative comfort of a sharashka, a prison research laboratory, where Solzhenitsyn—who had been sentenced to eight years in labor camps for criticizing Stalin in a private letter—had been temporarily moved. — Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2026

The French knew about some of Stalin’s excesses—the show trials, the labor camps, the bloody purges of those who strayed from the party line. — Literary Hub, 21 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for labor camp

• firedamp
• amp
• champ
• clamp
• cramp
• damp
• gamp
• lamp
• ramp
• samp
• scamp
• stamp