concentration camp

noun

Definition of concentration campnext
as in prison camp
a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions

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Recent Examples of concentration camp From 1941, when the systematic killing of Jews and other groups began as part of Nazi government policy, until the liberation of concentration camps in 1945, six million Jews would be killed. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026 In the months after his firing, Galliano embarked on a kind of education mission, studying antisemitism and the history of the Holocaust under Rabbi Barry Marcus and meeting with a concentration camp survivor. — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026 His sister Catherine was a resistance hero who survived Ravensbrück, a concentration camp. — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before. — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for concentration camp
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  1. prison camp
  2. work camp
  3. labor camp
  4. bull pen
Noun
  • Shortly after their meeting, Maxwell was moved from a low-security federal correctional facility in Tallahassee, Florida, to a minimum-security prison camp in Bryan, Texas.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The dour Dostoyevsky probably didn’t mean this as a compliment to human nature; the line appears in a book, The House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Definition of prison camp
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  • An inmate who walked away from a Nevada County work camp on Independence Day was captured in Tijuana by Mexican authorities, said state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials on Monday.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 7 July 2026
  • Mike Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison, Jim Pillen opened the Cornhusker Clink at a Nebraska work camp, and Jeff Landry opened the Louisiana Lockup in a disused wing of Angola penitentiary.
    — Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
Definition of work camp
Noun
  • 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
  • He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
    — Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of labor camp
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  • With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
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