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reeducation camps

reeducation camps is the plural 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

Questions about reeducation camps

What is reeducation camps the plural of?
Reeducation camps is the plural of reeducation camp.

Words near reeducation camps in the dictionary

  1. reeducated
  2. reeducates
  3. reeducating
  4. reeducation
  5. reeducation camp
  6. reeducation camps
  7. reeducational
  8. reeducations
  9. reeducative
  10. reeducator
  11. reeducators

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