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PRONUNCIATION OF TRANSIT CAMP

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRANSIT CAMP

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Transit 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 TRANSIT CAMP MEAN IN ENGLISH?

transit camp

Military camp

A military camp or bivouac is a semi-permanent facility for the lodging of an army. Camps are erected when a military force travels away from a major installation or fort during training or operations, and often have the form of large campsites. In the Roman era the military camp had highly stylized parameters and served an entire legion. Archaeological investigations have revealed many details of these Roman camps at sites such as Vindolanda and Raedykes.

Definition of transit camp in the English dictionary

The definition of transit camp in the dictionary is a camp in which refugees, soldiers, etc, live temporarily before moving to another destination.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRANSIT CAMP

transit
transit instrument
transit lounge
transit stop
transit system
transit theodolite
Transit van
transitable
transition
transition element
transition metal
transition point
transition team
transition temperature
transitional
transitional relief
transitionally
transitionary
transitive
transitively

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRANSIT CAMP

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

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

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Translation of «transit camp» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRANSIT CAMP

Find out the translation of transit camp to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of transit 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 «transit camp» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

过渡营
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

campo de tránsito
570 millions of speakers

English

transit camp
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पारगमन शिविर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

مخيم العبور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

транзитный лагерь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

campo de trânsito
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ট্রানজিট ক্যাম্প
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

camp de transit
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kem transit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Durchgangslager
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トランジットキャンプ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

교통 캠프
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Transit camp
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chạy vận chuyển
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போக்குவரத்து முகாம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संक्रमण शिबिर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Transit kamp
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

campo di transito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

obóz przejściowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

транзитний табір
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tabără de tranzit
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

στρατόπεδο διέλευσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

transit kamp
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

transitläger
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

transittleir
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of transit camp

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRANSIT CAMP»

The term «transit camp» is regularly used and occupies the 94.605 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRANSIT CAMP» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «transit camp» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «transit 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 transit camp

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRANSIT CAMP»

Discover the use of transit camp in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to transit camp and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Boulevard des Misères: the story of transit camp Westerbork
Describes the experiences of Dutch Jews in Westerbork, a transit camp which shipped its prisoners to concentration camps in Poland
Jacob Boas, 1985
2
Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag
CHAPTER 4 In the Tomsk Transit Camp According to the OGPU and the Siblag, the masses of deportees sent to Western Siberia as part of Gen- rikh Iagoda's " grandiose plan" were supposed to pass through three transit camps before being  ...
Nicolas Werth, 2007
3
Unlawful Occupation: Informal Settlements and Urban Policy ...
In 1976, Crossroads was proclaimed a 'transit camp', accommodating over 3,000 shacks (Cole, 1986; Weichel et al, 1978). The Crossroads transit camp became the subject of ambiguous intervention as government was reviewing its position ...
Marie Huchzermeyer, 2004
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The Interpreter
... Herbert Tareyton (GI transit camp), 142 Camp Lucky Strike (GI transit camp), 142 Camp Old Gold (GI transit camp), 142 Camp Pall Mall (GI transit camp), 142 Camp Stewart (Georgia), 32 Camp Twenty Grand (GI transit camp), 142 Camp Van ...
Alice Kaplan, 2005
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Waiting for Hope: Jewish Displaced Persons in Post-World War ...
... Angelika Königseder, Juliane Wetzel. MUNICH DEUTSCHES MUSEUM Munich District; transit camp for all DPs; number of Jewish camp residents 31 December 1945: 600, 19 October 1946: 6, 8 February 1947: 8; closed February 1947.
Angelika Königseder, Juliane Wetzel, 2001
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Life In The Ghettos During The Holocaust
The list of camps and ghettos using currency or script were: Type Transit Camp Parent Camp Amersfoort Auschwitz Bielsk Bohlen Boxen Brabag Buchenwald Cremona Dachau Flossenburg Grini Gross-Rosen Haselhorst Holysov Lichtenburg ...
Eric Sterling, 2005
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Gray Zones: Ambiguity and Compromise in the Holocaust and ...
The Difficult Description of Three Annexes ofDrancy — Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano, July 1943 to August 1944 Jean-Marc Dreyfus On 18 July 1943, 120 Jews, inmates of the transit camp of Drancy in the northern suburb of Paris, were  ...
Jonathan Petropoulos, John K. Roth, 2006
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Immigrants on the Threshold
They can be studied in the transit camp, as well as in any other form of initial settlement, without obscuring much of the fundamental structure of the process. It is true, of course, that we must constantly bear in mind that we are dealing with the ...
Judith T. Shuval, 1963
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Prisoners of War: Archaeology, Memory, and Heritage of 19th- ...
It was the distinct southeast- to northwest-orientated rectangular area made up of 16 compounds that was adjacent to the southwestern boundary of the “transit camp” (Figs. 6.1 and 6.2). References made to this camp indicate that it was ...
Harold Mytum, Gilly Carr, 2012
10
Choosing the Lesser Evil: Understanding Decision Making in ...
Getting things started in difficult circumstances On the 28 March, twelve days after the first email to the Amsterdam office, the country manager reported that an MSF logistician and nurse had opened a clinic in the transit camp, 24 hours after ...
Liesbet Heyse, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRANSIT CAMP»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term transit camp is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Rohingya women raped at transit camps
ALOR SETAR: Female Rohingya migrants detained at a human trafficking transit camp in Padang Besar, Thailand, were treated like sex slaves. Nur Khaidha ... «The Star Online, Jun 15»
2
Cops find one more human trafficking transit camp near Thai border
Reuters picKUALA LUMPUR, June 1 ― One more human trafficking transit camp was found at the Mata Ayer Forest Reserve in Lubuk Sireh, about 100 metres ... «Malay Mail Online, May 15»
3
'I dug my friend's grave,' says escaped transit camp victim
Mohamad Toha Naziullah, a survivor of the transit camps in Burma Bukit Wang, Wang Kelian, demonstrating how he was treated during his detention, in Alor ... «Malay Mail Online, May 15»
4
Wang Kelian human trafficking camps run by 'Yassin'
Yusof said Yassin would hold the people he had just bought after their arrival in southern Thailand in a specific location such as a transit camp in the jungle of ... «The Star Online, May 15»
5
Congo soldiers clash with Rwandan rebels in transit camp
... as an agreement to move the rebels from one transit camp to another fell apart. Congolese troops were moving rebel officers from a camp in Kanyabayonga in ... «Reuters, May 15»
6
S Sudan refugees in Ethiopia stuck in transit camp with no …
South Sudanese refugees in the Tergol Refugee Transit Camp of Gambella, Ethiopia have waited for weeks to be transferred to a permanent site without ... «Radio Tamazuj, May 15»
7
75 years since the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands The Westerbork …
Over the next five years, tens of thousands of Jews were deported from the Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz and other camps. The Dutch government ... «World Socialist Web Site, May 15»
8
Thailand graves: Two skeletons found at camps in Phang Nga
Both skeletons were found in abandoned camps in Phang Nga province, the ... Last year a senior police officer told me about a huge transit camp right on the ... «BBC News, May 15»
9
Why have transit camps for Mizrahi Jews been written out of Israeli …
Why, he asks, does the Israeli calendar have no “Ma'abarot Day” – a reference to the 1950s' transit camps that mainly housed Jewish refugees from the Middle ... «Haaretz, Apr 15»
10
Mhada loses redevpt project as HC bats for 187 families in transit
The Bombay high court came to the aid of around 187 families waiting in ramshackle transit camps for over a decade for their buildings' redevelopment. «Times of India, Mar 15»

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