work camp

noun

a camp for prisoners sentenced to labor, especially to outdoor labor such as roadbuilding or farming.
a volunteer project in which members of a church, service organization, etc., work together in aid of some worthy cause.

work camp

noun

a camp set up for young people who voluntarily do manual work on a worthwhile project

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Word History and Origins

Origin of work camp¹

First recorded in 1930–35

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Abel is being held in a grim Japanese work camp, where he is tortured.

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But he has to contend with being forced into a work camp, the loss of basic individual freedoms - and soldiers and rebels who try to force him to pick sides in a raging conflict.

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Lin gets away with the loot, but in a betrayal akin to “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Qian Lu turns on his friend, causing Lin to be sentenced to life at a grueling work camp.

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“He asked me to marry him. And they killed him. In the work camp at Lwów. He was Jewish.”

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When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Hungary, a German ally, sent men like his father to army work camps.

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