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prison camp
noun
- a camp for the confinement of prisoners of war or political prisoners.
- a camp for less dangerous prisoners assigned to outdoor work, usually for the government.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of prison camp1
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Example Sentences
The prison camp island nation known as Cuba erupted in celebration.
He was hallucinating he was in a prison camp under the Viet Cong.
Some were as old as Dostoevsky, who wrote his House of the Dead in 1861 after four years in a Siberian prison camp.
Last year, North Korea sentenced an American missionary, Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor in a prison camp.
He was interrogated by his captors in an underground prison camp.
The cavalry formed a rough prison-camp and we turned in again to wait for daylight.
He was my wingman, we were both shot down on the same mission and were together in prison camp.
The Red Cross provided us with almost everything we got while in prison camp aside from the food from the Germans.
We were none too neat traveling on the train as we were still wearing our old dirty uniforms from prison camp.
The unwritten rule of the prison camp is, whatever one gets the rest all share it, so they were disappointed too.
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