labor camp
noun
1
: a penal colony where forced labor is performed
2
: a camp for migratory laborers
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Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps.
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Li Yuan, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.
—Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
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Li Yuan, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Still, she was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a Russian labor camp.
—Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 1 Aug. 2024
In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.
—Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/labor%20camp. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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