concentration camp

1. A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect.

2. A place or situation characterized by extremely harsh conditions.

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concentration camp

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held, esp one of those in Nazi Germany in which millions were exterminated

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concentra′tion camp`

a guarded compound for the confinement of political prisoners, minorities, etc., esp. those established by the Nazis for the internment and persecution of prisoners.

[1900–05]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	concentration camp - a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions) stockade camp - a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners" death camp - a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed
	2.	concentration camp - a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions miserableness, misery, wretchedness - a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"

Translations

Konzentrationslager

campo di concentramento

концлагерь

concentration camp

n → Konzentrationslager nt, → KZ nt

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concentration camp

n → campo di concentramento

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