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work camp

noun

as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of work camp 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 He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp. —

Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024 A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp. —

Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for work camp

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In addition to William and Kate’s appearance in London, King Charles visited Poland for the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation — and, through his visit on Jan. 27, became the first British monarch to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

— Rachel Burchfield, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
The Nazi symbol was on view on the same day as a major ceremony to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by Soviet troops during the Second World War.

— Barbara A. Perry, Newsweek, 28 Jan. 2025