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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A concentration camp in which a large portion of the inmates are systematically put to death, are worked to death, or die from mistreatment.

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  • noun A facility built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill especially the Jewish people through gassing.

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  • noun a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed

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