n. Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
n. Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The state or condition of being interned; confinement, as of prisoners of war, in the interior of a country.
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n. placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
n. confinement during wartime
n. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
Word Usage
"Hence the second canard that was first assiduously pushed by HRW, which introduced the term internment camps to describe the centres in which civilians who escape from the LTTE into Government controlled territory are kept."