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work camp

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Definition of work camp

as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of work camp Penny is taken away, and Murphy winds up at a prisoner work camp led by the baseball-loving, vaguely sadistic warden Clancy (Russell Crowe). — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2026 The family was forced into a cattle car packed full of mostly Jewish people, forced to go to what was supposed to be a work camp at Auschwitz in Poland, but was an extermination camp. — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026 In the Depression era movie, Hawke portrays a widower who is torn from his daughter and gets sent to a brutal work camp. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Jan. 2026 In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for work camp

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In particular, the photos depict the daily and privileged lives of Nazi concentration camp guards stationed in special housing near the horrors of the camps themselves.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2026
Some detractors even characterized it as a concentration camp.

— The Conversation, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of concentration camp

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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

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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

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