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internment

[ in-turn-muhnt ]

noun

  1. an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime:

    the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

  2. the state of being interned; confinement.


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Origin of internment1

First recorded in 1865–70; intern 2 + -ment
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It's the law that President Franklin Roosevelt used to justify the Japanese internment, the darkest moment of his otherwise illustrious presidency.

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Mr Adams was detained in the early 1970s when the government in Northern Ireland introduced internment as violence spiralled in the early years of the Troubles.

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Trump has promised to build internment camps for undocumented immigrants he has declared war against.

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Furutani said he didn’t even know there had been internment camps until he went to college.

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Rounding them by the millions and dumping them in internment camps would bring our economy to its knees.

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