labor camp

noun

Definition of labor campnext
as in prison camp

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Recent Examples of labor camp Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps. — Li Yuan, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp. — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024 In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead. — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck. — Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for labor camp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for labor camp
  1. prison camp
  2. concentration camp
  3. work camp
  4. bull pen
  5. jail
Noun
  • Jacob Elordi endures the horrors of a World War II prison camp in the new trailer for the upcoming miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The North Korean government has long denied the existence of political prison camps.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025
Definition of prison camp
Noun
  • Published in 1946 and translated into 50 languages with more than 16 million copies sold, Frankl’s account follows his time in the Nazi concentration camps and his exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of unspeakable adversity.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 18 Mar. 2025
  • To help set the film apart from other Holocaust dramas, Geller took the Son of Saul and Zone of Interest approach by leaving much of the concentration camp atrocities to the imagination of the viewer.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of concentration camp
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  • And on that day, they were assigned to different camps, which were work camps.
    — Patrick Wilson, Charlotte Observer, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
Definition of work camp
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  • After a disappointing 82-80 season last year, ending with a fourth-place finish in the American League Central, the Minnesota Twins enter this season with high expectations, thanks to the development of their young players and a bullpen described by some MLB experts as the best in baseball.
    — Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Now healthy, Merryweather has a chance to be a big piece of the Cubs bullpen.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of bull pen
Noun
  • Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer.
    — arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Willie Frank Peterson, 52, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 2023, and was sentenced to six years and three months in jail.
    — Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
Definition of jail

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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

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