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concentration camp

noun

Etymology

From concentration + camp. In later use partly after German Konzentrationslager, itself a calque of the English term.

  1. derived from term
  2. derived from Konzentrationslager

Definitions

  1. A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport.

    • A concentration camp is a place, near the scene of intended operations or near an embarkation point, where troops are assembled for immediate use against the enemy or for transport to an over-sea theater of operations.
    • 1930, Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life, Chapter XIV The 21st Lancers… …journey forward by nine days' march to the advanced concentration camp just north of the Shabluka Cataract.

  2. A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war,…

    A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.

    • All Cubans (men, women, and children) were ordered to move into garrisoned Spanish towns or concentration camps.
    • In 1945, overseen by Alfred Hitchcock, a crack team of British film-makers went to Germany to document the horror of the concentration camps.

  3. A situation of overcrowding and extremely harsh conditions.

    • The UN inspector stated that the Australian government's migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA