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Internment   /ɪntˈərnmənt/   Listen
noun
Internment  n.  
1.
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
2.
Confining within a country for the duration of a war; usually of citizens of a hostile power.





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"Internment" Quotes from Famous Books



... at request of Commander Thierichens, takes over for internment the German converted cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, to hold her until the end of the war; German Admiralty admits loss of submarine U-9, already reported by ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... class are mostly confined in barbed-wire internment camps outside the city, and guarded by Sengalese. Twenty per cent get permission to go into the city each day. The seventy or eighty thousand indigent Russians in Constantinople belong mostly to the upper classes. ...
— Europe--Whither Bound? - Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 • Stephen Graham


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