Thesaurus results for LABOR CAMP

labor camp

noun

Definition of labor camp

as in prison camp

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Recent Examples of labor camp First union contract regulating safety and sanitary conditions in farm labor camps. — Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 24 Mar. 2026 In The Weight, Hawke plays Samuel Murphy, who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer played by Russell Crowe. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026 My parents grew up in Cambodia in the 1970s, when the Khmer Rouge took over the country and forced millions of people into labor camps. — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026 In one, she was sent to a labor camp after giving birth. — Ava Kofman, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for labor camp

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Noun

Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence in a Texas federal prison camp, had argued she was selectively prosecuted as a scapegoat, but the judge dismissed those claims as frivolous.

— Michael R. Sisak, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Maxwell is serving out her sentence at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, where she was transferred last summer from a much less comfortable maximum security prison in Florida.

— Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of prison camp

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We were taught by a gruff cockney called Fred Waring, who had participated in the D-Day landings in a regiment that had fought its way across Europe towards Berlin and liberated the concentration camp at Belsen.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Sep. 2026
These include her grandfather, a Danish Resistance fighter during World War II, a concentration camp survivor, priest, and author who sought the divine on solitary nature walks.

— Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of concentration camp

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Vertical is distributing the Depression-era film, in which Hawke plays a widower who is separated from his daughter when he gets sent to a brutal work camp.

— Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
Referenced as harkening back to classics such as William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Weight is set in 1933 Oregon as Samuel Murphy (Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of work 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

Definition of bull pen

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When the boss returns to the office vowing to send them all to jail, he is stunned to see the women have introduced job-sharing, flexible hours, and on-site child care.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2026
He was booked into the Saline County jail and released Tuesday afternoon on a $70,000 bond, according to the jail's online inmate roster.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2026

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