as in concentration camp
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of work camp
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
Noun
-
When her husband was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Girone was eight months pregnant, Claims Conference said.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
28 Feb. 2025
-
And on the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, run by a Nazi puppet regime, architect Bogdan Bogdanović crafted perhaps the most optimistic acknowledgment of the will to overcome the 20th century’s darkest hours.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
Noun
-
North Korea's Kim Jong Un maintains an iron grip through the threat and reality of labor camps and murder along with a fanatical propaganda personality cult.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
-
An additional million had been thrown into arbitrary detention or packed off to penal colonies and labor camps.—
Gary J. Bass,
Foreign Affairs,
14 June 2018
Noun
-
Holmes, 41, is incarcerated at a federal minimum-security prison camp outside Houston.—
Ethan Baron,
The Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2025
-
Migrants being held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are now being permitted to speak to their attorneys by phone, an official for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a court filing.—
Laura Romero,
ABC News,
20 Feb. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share