work camp
noun
: a camp for workers: such as
b
: a short-term group project in which individuals from one or more religious organizations volunteer their labor
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Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.
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Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 18 Nov. 2024
Selly’s father escaped from a work camp and returned to Budapest.
—Deborah Danan, Sun Sentinel, 9 May 2024
Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.
—Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20camp. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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