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Definitions for Internment
ɪnˈtɜrn məntin·tern·ment
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Princeton's WordNet
internmentnoun
confinement during wartime
imprisonment, internmentnoun
the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
impoundment, impounding, internment, poundagenoun
placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
GCIDE
Internmentnoun
Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power.
Wiktionary
internmentnoun
Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
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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 Dictionary
Internmentnoun
confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country
Etymology: [F. internement. See Intern.]
Wikidata
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."
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The numerical value of Internment in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
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The numerical value of Internment in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Internment in a Sentence
President Donald Trump and the United States Olympic Committee should jointly announce that the American delegation will boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics unless Xinjiang's internment camps are shuttered and subsequently demolished.
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.
At the time following the Civil War, at its core, it meant all persons had the right to be protected by the police, that the laws of the country should protect all people, in the 20th century, more broader questions were litigated under the 14th Amendment, like Brown v. Board of Education -- whether segregation was constitutional. Cases involving the internment of Japanese citizens, case from the marriage equality decisions, even Roe vs. Wade have strains of equal protection language and invoke due process law.
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.
Yesterday Donald Trump was putting children in internment camps, and today Donald Trump's putting families in internment camps. We think both things are wrong.
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