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internment camps

internment camps is the plural of internment camp.

Meaning of internment camp

Noun

internment camp (plural internment camps)

  1. (euphemistic) a concentration camp, especially a non-Nazi one from before or during WWII; a detention center; a relocation camp.
    • Historical references describe the camps as internment camps, although others favor the name relocation camps. Others, more critical of this action, refer to them as detention camps or concentration camps.

Questions about internment camps

What is internment camps the plural of?
Internment camps is the plural of internment camp.

Words near internment camps in the dictionary

  1. internist
  2. internists
  3. internity
  4. internment
  5. internment camp
  6. internment camps
  7. internments
  8. internodal
  9. internode
  10. internodes
  11. internodial

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