internment camp

noun

1. a prison camp for the confinement of prisoners of war, enemy aliens, political prisoners, etc.
2. a concentration camp for civilian citizens, especially those with ties to an enemy during wartime, as the camps established by the United States government to detain Japanese Americans after the Pearl Harbor attacks.

Word History and Origins

Origin of internment camp¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

Furutani said he didn’t even know there had been internment camps until he went to college.

From Los Angeles Times

Rounding them by the millions and dumping them in internment camps would bring our economy to its knees.

From Salon

If elected, he also promised a militarized campaign of deportation that would entail arresting and detaining millions of people in internment camps.

From Salon

It's clear that he's priming his followers to support violence across America as police and the military carry out the Project 2025 policy of round-ups, internment camps and deportation of tens of millions of people.

From Salon

The nation’s wealthy conspire with them to build and operate internment camps into which any dissenters opposing their oligarchy can disappear.

From Salon

Related Words

• gas chamber
• gulag
• prison camp