prison camp

prison camp

noun
1.
a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
2.
a camp for less dangerous prisoners assigned to outdoor work, usually for the government.

Origin:
1905–10
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
WordNet
prison camp

noun
1. a camp for prisoners of war 
2. a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects [syn: work camp
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