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

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

One of the movie’s most haunting subplots involves prisoners, who are pulled from labor camps looking half-dead and subsequently folded into Michael Caine‘s soccer team at the Brit’s insistence, but possibly to his squad’s detriment. — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 19 June 2026

Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields. — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 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