concentration camp

internment camp in which people are imprisoned and often tortured; any of a number of camps set up by the German Nazis during World War II for holding Jews and other peoples before killing them

This article is about the usage and history of the terms concentration camp, internment camp and internment. For a listing of individual camps, see List of concentration and internment camps. For German concentration camps during World War II, see Nazi concentration camps. For the policy of Internment in Northern Ireland, see Operation Demetrius. Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as "The action of ‘interning’; confinement within the limits of a country or place". Most modern usage is about individuals, for example the policy of Internment introduced by the Northern Ireland government in 1971 in an attempt to reduce terrorism (see Operation Demetrius). There is a distinction between internment, which is being confined usually for preventative or political reasons, and imprisonment, which is being closely confined as a punishment for crime. "Internment" also refers to the practice of neutral countries in time of war in detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment in their territories under the Second Hague Convention.
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Noun
1. a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
(synonym) stockade
(hypernym) penal institution, penal facility
(hyponym) Auschwitz
2. a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
(hypernym) misery, wretchedness

Synonyms and related words:
Belsen, Konzentrationslager, Lager, POW camp, abattoir, aceldama, barrack, barracks, bastille, bivouac, black hole, borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, butchery, camp, campground, campsite, cantonment, casern, cell, condemned cell, death cell, death house, death row, detention camp, encampment, federal prison, field of blood, forced-labor camp, gaol, gas chamber, guardhouse, hobo jungle, house of correction, house of detention, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse, keep, labor camp, lines, lockup, maximum-security prison, minimum-security prison, oubliette, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement, penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school, reformatory, shambles, slaughterhouse, sponging house, state prison, stockade, stockyard, the hole, tollbooth, training school
  

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