labor camp
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7.5
- noun
- /ˈleɪbər kæmp/
- US
:
campo de trabajos forzados
- For those looking to improve labor camp conditions, agency matters.
- work in the labor camp
- forced labor camp
And the Chinese are putting them in labor camps for making solar panels.
- And the Chinese are putting them in labor camps for making solar panels.
- She was then deported to two slave labor camps.
- Together we can try to visit these slave labor camps and you can see it with your own eyes.
- After these concentration camp was closed, they were moved to slave labor camps.
- You know, we'll do the same with you or you go to the concentration camp, work labour camp.
Examples
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Gaston's unit is in a labour camp in Germany.
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Where are you gonna live, in a migrant labor camp?
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Did women and men do the same work in the labor camp?
Academic text (1992) -
People seemed not to know that a labor camp was only several hundred yards away from their community.
Fiction book (1992) -
You won't be in the labour camp for long.
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It was built as a labor camp.
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Slightly over half of the participants (13) had spent less than a year at their labor camp at the time.
Academic text (2017) -
Migrant workers typically find housing in labor camps provided by their employers.
Academic text (2002) -
Some were forced to work in the labor camps to receive "reeducation" by workers and peasants.
Academic text (1992) -
For that crime, she was sent to a labor camp for two and a half years.
Synonyms
6
7.0
A camp where prisoners must do hard physical work
1
6.8
A place in the countryside where people who broke the law live and work on farms
How Harsh
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'labor' (work) + 'camp' (place where people stay) transparently yields the general idea of a place where people work, so learners will likely infer a camp associated with work. However, the specific connotation of coercion, imprisonment, or political detention (forced labour camps) is not fully predictable from the constituents alone, making the full meaning only partially inferable without prior exposure.
Etymology
Labor camp comes from the plain image of a camp where people are kept and made to do hard labor. So it means 'a prison' where people are 'forced to work'.