Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime.
- noun The state of being interned; confinement.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being interned; confinement, as of prisoners of war, in the interior of a country.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
- noun Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
- noun confinement during wartime
- noun the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
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Examples
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Hence the second canard that was first assiduously pushed by HRW, which introduced the term internment camps to describe the centres in which civilians who escape from the LTTE into Government controlled territory are kept.
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It seems to me that the internment is a relatively little known fact.
Obasan by Joy Kogawa 2007
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It seems to me that the internment is a relatively little known fact.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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I didn't, they were called concentration camps, or internment camps. which is why one uses the term internment camp. you'll need to login or register to do that is it really that easy? only one way to find out ...
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I didn't, they were called concentration camps, or internment camps. which is why one uses the term internment camp. you'll need to login or register to do that is it really that easy? only one way to find out ...
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Many end up in internment camps in Colombia and, in fact, a number of Latin Americans were sent to the United States for internment.
Book Review: The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez « A Progressive on the Prairie 2010
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Many end up in internment camps in Colombia and, in fact, a number of Latin Americans were sent to the United States for internment.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez » Print 2010
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Petey: While the Japanese internment is a closer political analogy, the act in question is actually torture, which if it applies to the internment situation (I honestly am unaware, and regret if it does) is not known to most people.
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After all this is a troll, a cowardly troll, he probably agrees with putting Japanese/Americans in internment camps.
Think Progress » Obama: Gitmo Has ‘Been Subject To A Lot Of…Pretty Rank Politics’ 2010
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Are we or are we not putting people in internment camps?
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