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
Portraits of prisoners are seen at the former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 21, 2025.
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Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
Marcy Thompson: Not long after being transported to Theresienstadt, Margarethe was sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp.
—Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
While some managed to flee, many were deported and killed in concentration camps.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
In the movie, a Jewish bookstore owner uses his wit and humor to hide the terrible reality of a Nazi concentration camp from his son.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
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Irwin Cotler, TIME, 26 Jan. 2025
Marcy Thompson: Not long after being transported to Theresienstadt, Margarethe was sent to Treblinka, a concentration camp.
—Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2025
While some managed to flee, many were deported and killed in concentration camps.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2025
In the movie, a Jewish bookstore owner uses his wit and humor to hide the terrible reality of a Nazi concentration camp from his son.
—Ari Daniel, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
Noun
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The military base has been used as a prison camp in the past.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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There are signs that FSA is doing what Congress intended as prison camps have seen their populations decrease.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
26 Dec. 2024
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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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
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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
Noun
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Criswell pitched out of the bullpen and rotation for Boston last year, posting a 4.08 ERA in 99 1/3 innings.—
Yaakov Katz,
Newsweek,
7 Feb. 2025
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That night, a national broadcast team had placed its makeshift set beyond the bullpen in right field.—
Sam McDowell,
Kansas City Star,
6 Feb. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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