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internment
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN camp ▪ Everyone had to produce an identity card, including those actually in the internment camps ! ▪ Many of these were transferred to an internment camp at Long Kesh near Lisburn. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Mandela ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial . The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment , it ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Internment \In*tern"ment\, n. [F. internement. See Intern .] Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country. Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. confine within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1870, from intern (v.) + -ment . Compare French internement . Internment camp is attested from 1916.
Usage examples of internment.
And it was quite nice ice, a little rural manor house with barbed wire around it, quite the cushiest internment camp in England.
We have two Indians - lascars - two Goanese, two Singhalese, two Poles, a Puerto Rican, a Southern Irishman and, for some odd reason, an Italian who, as an official enemy, ought to be a prisoner-of-war or in an internment camp somewhere.
All the stuff about Fascist atrocities, denunciations of Chamberlain, etc., which it had been completely impossible to get away from in any highbrow magazine in peace time, suddenly came to an end, and far more fuss has been made among the left-wing intelligentsia about the internment of German refugees than about anything done by the enemy.
The meat-man who ruled a civic smudge called the Internment Facility when it was listed on the City Councils budget every year.
Mineta obstinately refused to consider a relevant airport screening procedure on the grounds that fifty years earlier another Democrat had put him in an internment camp.
An internment camp teaches you things about the value of not knowing.
He had been captured in March 1943 during the battle of EI-Agheila, was shipped to Britain, and was presently held in an internment camp just outside Bridgend.
He has been too frequent a visitor at our cautious Lord Holder's internment camp.
He had been on the Olympic team back in 1936 and had spent most of the war in an internment camp.
This is disgusting hypocrisy, in the first place because of your own record during the past ten years, in the second place because troops who have taken prisoners have to secure them somehow until they can get them to a place of safety, and to tie men's hands in such circumstances is totally different from chaining up a helpless prisoner who is already in an internment camp.
In congressional testimony last week, Mineta mercifully spared the senators a recap of his experience in a Japanese internment camp and allowed his assistant, longtime Bush crony and ATF apologist John Magaw, to explain the department's key security improvements.
There they were successful in rescuing a prisoner who escaped from an enemy internment camp constructed on the surface.
Thus he missed the fall of Bukavu when finally the ammunition ran out in November, and the five months in an internment camp in Kigali.
That is what brought us to the internment camps, to the listlessness caused by the lack of demon energy upon which we fed so greedily.
Roosevelt rounded up Japanese for the internment camps, liberals were awed by his genius.