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PRONUNCIATION OF LABOUR CAMP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LABOUR CAMP

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Labour camp is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LABOUR CAMP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

labour camp

Labor camp

A labor camp is a simplified detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons. Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the operators.

Definition of labour camp in the English dictionary

The definition of labour camp in the dictionary is a penal colony involving forced labour. Other definition of labour camp is a camp for migratory labourers.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LABOUR CAMP

labour
labour agreement
Labour and Socialist International
labour charges
labour costs
Labour Day
labour exchange
labour force
labour law
labour market
Labour movement
labour of love
labour pains
Labour Party
labour relations
labour shortage
labour supply
labour unrest
labour ward
labour-intensive

WORDS THAT END LIKE LABOUR CAMP

base camp
boot camp
break camp
camp
concentration camp
fat camp
health camp
high camp
holiday camp
internment camp
nudist camp
POW camp
prison camp
refugee camp
rest camp
Scout camp
summer camp
tennis camp
training camp
transit camp
work camp

Synonyms and antonyms of labour camp in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «labour camp» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LABOUR CAMP

Find out the translation of labour camp to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of labour camp from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «labour camp» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

劳教所
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

campo de trabajo
570 millions of speakers

English

labour camp
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

श्रम शिविर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معسكر عمل
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

трудовой лагерь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

campo de trabalho
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শ্রম শিবির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

camp de travail
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kem buruh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Arbeitslager
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

労働収容所
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

노동 수용소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Labor camp
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

trại lao động
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொழிலாளர் முகாம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कामगार शिबिर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Çalışma kampı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

campo di lavoro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obóz pracy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

трудовий табір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lagăr de muncă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρατόπεδο εργασίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

arbeid kamp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

arbetsläger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tvangsarbeidsleir
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of labour camp

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LABOUR CAMP»

The term «labour camp» is regularly used and occupies the 79.969 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LABOUR CAMP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «labour camp» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «labour camp» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about labour camp

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LABOUR CAMP»

Discover the use of labour camp in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to labour camp and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hasag-Leipzig Slave Labour Camp for Women: The Struggle for ...
Here for the first time in the historiography of the Holocaust is the story of an international forced labour camp for women, the largest of the auxiliary women's camps attached to KZ Buchenwald in Germany.
Felicja Karay, 2002
2
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Presents a new translation of the fictional account of the daily hardships a prisoner endures in a Stalinist labor camp Introduction by John Bayley
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, 1995
3
The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust
... 1939–1945 154 215 A slave labour camp established, 30 September 1943 155 216 Slave labour camps, 1943–1944 155 217 Himmler orders the evidence of mass murder destroyed 156 218 The Jews of the southern Dalmation coast 157 ...
Martin Gilbert, 2012
4
Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North ...
A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. ‘This is a story unlike any ...
Blaine Harden, 2012
5
Migrant Labour in India
Besides, minimum wages, minimum basic amenities should be provided at the labour camp: This should include proper water and drainage facilities. 16) Temporary Ration Card should be issued to them to make them entitled to draw their ...
S. N. Tripathy, C. R. Dash, 1997
6
Pagoda of Light: A Falun Gong Story from Today's China
But we didn't persecute anyone; it was all done by the labour camp.” Old Mrs. Bai replied, “In that case, why don't you tell the people who phone youthat itwas the labour campthat did itall; tell them what happened and give them the phone ...
Yuan Meng, Long Tu, 2008
7
The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Asian labour
On 23 July 1943 45 Burmese Camp Officers, under THAKIN KHA and Lt. Col. SUGIYAMA, left RANGOON for MOULMEIN. We were instructed to go and visit the MUPPOM Labour Camp, 3 miles from MOULMEIN. All the Camp Officers went ...
Paul H. Kratoska, 2006
8
Primitive Capital Accumulation in the Sudan
Research undertaken in 1983 showed that 78% of these labour camp labourers had sharecropping arrangements.4 From another point of view, settled wage labourers may be divided, as in the preceding discussion, between those labourers ...
Abbas Abdelkarim, 2005
9
The Dynamics of Hired Farm Labour: Constraints and Community ...
When five or more migrant workers occupy a site, it is required that the labour camp be inspected and licensed by the Michigan Department of Agriculture. According to the Department, there were 38 licensed labour camps in the region.
A. Vandeman, J. Larson, J. Runyan, 2002
10
War and the Crisis of Youth in Sierra Leone
But the labour camp became a central focus in post-war tensions between RUF ex-combatants and civilians. Up until disarmament, the RUF was in charge of the area and forced the civilians to mine for them, although on better terms during ...
Krijn Peters, Stephanie Kitchen, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LABOUR CAMP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term labour camp is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Green Hope brings workers Eid joy | The National
The Dubai group visited the Al Tamimi Engineering labour camp in Jebel Ali where, as well as handing out the gifts, they also explained the ... «The National, Jul 15»
2
KAZAKHSTAN: Mosque again denied legal status, Imam dies …
Muslim prisoner of conscience Saken Tulbayev, sentenced on 2 July to four years eight months jail in a labour camp and banned from ... «Forum 18, Jul 15»
3
Social media fans involved with Iftar meal donations
Throughout Ramadan, a team from Acer packaged and delivered the boxes to labour camp workers, which added up to a total of 1,000 meals. «Gulf Today, Jul 15»
4
First official labour camp to be opened in Palakkad
The labour camp programme, which will be drawn on the lines of those in the Gulf countries, will be expanded to other districts in the next ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
5
'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' gets four years
... on several occasions performed "ramp duty", processing deportees as they arrived in cattle cars at the extermination and forced labour camp. «9news.com.au, Jul 15»
6
Hyeonseo Lee: Escape, exile and why she misses North Korea
Q. You had nightmares your mom was arrested and sent to a labour camp and your brother had become a beggar, and another one about ... «Macleans.ca, Jul 15»
7
Bring Ai Weiwei's Tree to London
As a child he and his family were sent to a Communist labour camp for re-education. His father, poet Ai Qing had offended the authorities and ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
8
Signal International offers $20m to settle case with exploited Indian …
It also charged them $1,050 a month for accommodation which was a guarded labour camp – conditions that a jury in February found ... «Splash 247, Jul 15»
9
Romanian court seeks 25 years for communist prison commander
Ion Ficior faces the same charges for the deaths of 103 people at Periprava labour camp, which he ran from 1958 to 1963. He also denies ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
10
Volunteer group aims to dispel myths about Emiratis
After a month of preparation, Giveback members distributed 1,100 food parcels on Sunday to workers at a labour camp in Mussaffah. «The National, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Labour camp [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/labour-camp>. May 2024 ».
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