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Meanings of internment in anglès

rus
интернирование
espanyol
internamiento
català
internament
Wikidata

Imprisonment or confinement of groups of people without trial.

internament
català
confiscació

Placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law.

confiscació
Sinònims
Examples for "concentration camp"
Examples for "concentration camp"
1
Memoirs of concentration camp survivors demonstrate the power of the human spirit.
Independent.ie
2
Today marks the 59th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The Irish Times
3
The Nazis tattooed the arms of concentration camp inmates with a number.
The Guardian
4
A story of being in a concentration camp survival courage and PTSD.
Radio NZ
5
That was why the British finally put her in a concentration camp.
Mobilizing Woman-Power
portuguès
aprisionamento
català
empresonament

The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

empresonament
Usage of internment in anglès
1
To this day, the government denies all accusations of internment and torture.
News.com.au
2
I sent a character reference off to the director of internment operations.
The day the falls stood still
3
And the Taoiseach admitted that the internment option had not gone away.
The Irish Times
4
I knew nothing of the internment operation, but was groggy with fatigue.
The Irish Times
5
An internment camp teaches you things about the value of not knowing.
Broken angels
6
In some cases, internment was justified with the single word: 'Slav'.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
7
We need internment of thousands of terror suspects now to protect our children.
Radio NZ
8
Reports of widespread detentions at internment camps in Xinjiang first emerged in 2018.
BBC
9
When I reached the internment camp it was in a wildly chaotic condition.
Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons: Wesel, Sennelager, Klinge...
10
He was jailed for refusing an order to report to an internment camp.
Reuters
11
And, critically, there is no provision made for the possible introduction of internment.
The Irish Times
12
My grandfather was arrested and taken to Frongoch, an internment camp in Wales.
The Guardian
13
Whatever these fiends planned, it reached back all the way to their internment.
Orb Sceptre Throne
14
I mean, to survive a government internment camp with so little apparent scarring.
Broken angels
15
Wells and Professor Gilbert Murray have registered strong protests against the indiscriminate internment.
The new yorker
16
She likened them instead to US Japanese internment camps during World War Two.
Radio NZ
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portuguès
aprisionamento
Internment through the time
Internment across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Less common