labor camp
noun
1
: a penal colony where forced labor is performed
2
: a camp for migratory laborers
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Hunter would learn, for example, that her cousin, Józef, was born in a Siberian labor camp, and that his mother used her breast milk to keep his eyes from freezing in the harsh weather.
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Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
Rak’s parents, both Polish Jews, fled the Holocaust, only to be captured at the border and sent to a labor camp in Russia’s Far North.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
She herself is then sent to a labor camp in Mongolia, where the authorities eventually make use of her scientific expertise in an unexpected way.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2024
Boys are being forced into labor camps and girls are kidnapped to become comfort women.
—Janika Oza, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
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
Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2024
Rak’s parents, both Polish Jews, fled the Holocaust, only to be captured at the border and sent to a labor camp in Russia’s Far North.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
She herself is then sent to a labor camp in Mongolia, where the authorities eventually make use of her scientific expertise in an unexpected way.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 Mar. 2024
Boys are being forced into labor camps and girls are kidnapped to become comfort women.
—Janika Oza, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
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
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First Known Use
1900, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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