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internment

[in-turn-muhnt]

noun

  1. an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime.

    the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

  2. the state of being interned; confinement.



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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of internment1

First recorded in 1865–70; intern 2 + -ment
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But Trump’s base will be with him: six out of ten Republicans support military internment camps for undocumented people.

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Campus rebellions can be suppressed once the price of public protest becomes cooperation, death or internment.

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Mr Gallagher reminded the court that Mr Adams was released from internment without trial to attend peace talks with the British government in 1972.

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The use of this ancient wartime power, which was only used three times before, and grievously abused in the case of the Japanese and Italian American internment, is an attack on common sense.

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He dealt with his internment without trial in the 1970s and the 1981 Republican hunger strikes, by which time he was Sinn Féin vice president.

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