Definitions for internment
ɪnˈtɜrn məntin·tern·ment

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. internmentnoun

   confinement during wartime

2. imprisonment, internmentnoun

   the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

3. impoundment, impounding, internment, poundagenoun

   placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

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1. Internmentnoun

   Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power.

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1. internmentnoun

   Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

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1. internment

   Internment refers to the detainment or confinement of a person or a group of people, typically during a war or under governmental authority. It is usually done without charges or intent to file charges. This practice deprives individuals of their freedom, as they are often held in camps or prisons without a trial or a sentencing.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Internmentnoun

   confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country

2. Etymology: [F. internement. See Intern.]

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1. Internment

   Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction between internment, which is being confined usually for preventive or political reasons, and imprisonment, which is being closely confined as a punishment for crime. Internment also refers to the practice of neutral countries in time of war in detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment in their territories under the Second Hague Convention. Early civilizations such as Assyria used forced resettlement of populations as a means of controlling territory, but it was not until much later in the late 19th and 20th centuries that records exist of groups of civilian non-combatants being concentrated into large prison camps. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights restricts the use of internment. Article 9 states that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."

Matched Categories

1. • Captivity
   • Confinement
   • Law
   • Seizure

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of internment in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of internment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of internment in a Sentence

1. Nyrola Elimä:

   It is unethical to continue investing there, you can't do business with a country that has internment camps, especially when you know there is a camp in that region.

2. Antony Blinken:

   The Chinese government has detained more than one million people in as many as 1200 state-run internment camps throughout Xinjiang, many detainees are subjected to physical violence, sexual abuse, and torture to induce them to work producing apparel, electronics, solar equipment, agricultural products.

3. Alexander Woo:

   George is probably the most notable living person who has lived through the internment, and he's a working actor in our business, it seemed insane not to have him involved in the show. So I got up the courage to approach him.

4. Sean Roberts:

   They're terrified. They don't know what to do. They don't necessarily want to declare asylum in United States because that reflects badly on their family, but they've also gotten messages from the region that they shouldn't come back because they'll definitely be put in one of these internment camps.

5. Alexander Woo:

   With' Allegiance,' George used the vocabulary of musical theater to tell the story of the whole spectrum of emotions of the internment, i felt like George would be familiar and receptive to that [ horror ] approach to telling the story, because it's a style of storytelling that, hopefully, allows you to access the emotions of the characters involved.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=internment
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=internment
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Internment
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internment
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=internment
7. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=internment