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re-education camp

re-education camp is the alternative form of reeducation camp.

Meaning of reeducation camp

Noun

reeducation camp (plural reeducation camps)

  1. (euphemistic) A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination.
    • Although the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now encourages Vietnamese refugees to visit their native land, many refuse to do so, fearing that [...] they would be hustled off to reeducation camps to face starvation, over-work, and slow death.1989, James Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives, page 11
  2. (dated) A camp where people are rehabilitated to health, especially after injury.
    • By degrees the seriously wounded were concentrated in this hospital, which remained open till 1919, and the discharged drafted to a Belgian reeducation camp in France.1922, “Women's War Work”, in Hugh Chisolm, editor, The Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 32, page 1064

Forms of re-education camp

pluralre-education camps

Questions about re-education camp

What is re-education camp the alternative form of?
Re-education camp is the alternative form of reeducation camp.

Words near re-education camp in the dictionary

  1. re-educate
  2. re-educated
  3. re-educates
  4. re-educating
  5. re-education
  6. re-education camp
  7. re-education camps
  8. re-elect
  9. re-electability
  10. re-electable
  11. re-elected

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