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The definition of internment is imprisonment or confinement.

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An example of internment is when the Jews were kept imprisoned in concentration camps by Hitler.

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See internment in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an interning or being interned

See internment in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime.
The state of being interned; confinement.

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