work camp

noun

: a camp for workers: such as
b
: a short-term group project in which individuals from one or more religious organizations volunteer their labor

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Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024 Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine. Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024 He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp. Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024 A week after Kristallnacht in 1938, Nazis took her father to a work camp. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 13 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for work camp 

Word History

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of work camp was in 1877

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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20camp. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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