concentration camp

noun

Definition of concentration campnext
as in prison camp
a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions

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Recent Examples of concentration camp By 1941, Thyssen tried to flee from the Nazis, but was caught and sent to the Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps. — Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 28 Sep. 2026 An English tourist has gone viral for complaining about the concessions… at a Holocaust concentration camp. — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 25 Sep. 2026 These include her grandfather, a Danish Resistance fighter during World War II, a concentration camp survivor, priest, and author who sought the divine on solitary nature walks. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026 Masha Rolski was 14 when World War II reached Lithuania, and 18 when British troops freed her from the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. — Daniella Greenbaum Davis, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for concentration camp
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  1. prison camp
  2. work camp
  3. labor camp
  4. bull pen
Noun
  • Holmes is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding Theranos investors at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, roughly a two-hour drive from Austin.
    — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026
  • His attorney requested that he be incarcerated at FPC Yankton, a minimum-security federal prison camp in South Dakota.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of prison camp
Noun
  • Vertical is distributing the Depression-era film, in which Hawke plays a widower who is separated from his daughter when he gets sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 20 Sep. 2026
  • Referenced as harkening back to classics such as William Friedkin’s Sorcerer and John Huston’s Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Weight is set in 1933 Oregon as Samuel Murphy (Hawke) is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of work camp
Noun
  • The Nazis conscripted her father and forced him to work at a labor camp.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
    — Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
Definition of labor camp
Noun
  • With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.
    — Sean Hammond, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.
    — Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 25 June 2026
Definition of bull pen

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