Internment Definition

ĭn-tûrnmənt
noun
The act of interning or confining, especially in wartime.
American Heritage
An interning or being interned.
Webster's New World

Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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Noun

Singular:
internment
Plural:
internments

Internment Sentence Examples

  • By the end of 1975, the government ended internment.

  • As a German living in England during World War I, he was sent to a British internment camp, where he rigged the hospital bed springs to create a form of exercise machine.

  • The second part of the novel moves on three years to the internment camp where Jim has spent the war.

  • The ATCSA 2001 introduced many extra powers including internment.

  • He was deposed on April 2 7, and sent to Salonika for internment and safe-keeping; and his successor, as Sultan Murad V., was proclaimed the same day.

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