INTERNMENT


Meaning of INTERNMENT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

camp

Everyone had to produce an identity card, including those actually in the internment camps !

Many of these were transferred to an internment camp at Long Kesh near Lisburn.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Mandela was released after 27 years' internment .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And afterwards he revealed he had told Sir John not to implement internment .

I am writing this letter in order to humbly ask your forgiveness for the events preceding my internment here.

I believe that it can be done without internment .

I refer mainly to internment and other measures that can not be justified.

Kurt was able to sign up without first enduring the humiliation of internment .

The fact remains that internment is on the statute book and is available to the Government to use.

There is no easy way and internment is not the answer.

When war broke out he had to endure four months' internment as an enemy alien.

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