labour camp

English

Alternative forms

(US) labor camp

Noun

labour camp (plural labour camps)

A type of prison where prisoners are obliged to do forced labour, usually outdoors.
The labour camps of the old Soviet Union are well described by the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Translations

type of prison

Finnish: työleiri (fi), vankileiri (fi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: arbeidsleir m

Nynorsk: arbeidsleir m

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