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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
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of work camp1
Example Sentences
Abel is being held in a grim Japanese work camp, where he is tortured.
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.
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.
“He asked me to marry him. And they killed him. In the work camp at Lwów. He was Jewish.”
When Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Hungary, a German ally, sent men like his father to army work camps.
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