reeducation camp
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From reeducation + camp. First use appears c. 1935 in the Oakland Tribune.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -æmp
Noun
[edit]reeducation camp (plural reeducation camps)
- (euphemistic) A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination.
- 1989, James Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives[1], page 11:
- Although the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now encourages Vietnamese refugees to visit their native land, many refuse to do so, fearing that [...] they would be hustled off to reeducation camps to face starvation, over-work, and slow death.
- (dated) A camp where people are rehabilitated to health, especially after injury.
- 1922, “Women's War Work”, in Hugh Chisolm, editor, The Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 32, page 1064:
- By degrees the seriously wounded were concentrated in this hospital, which remained open till 1919, and the discharged drafted to a Belgian reeducation camp in France.
Translations
[edit]camp where dissidents undergo reeducation
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