internment
pronunciation
How to pronounce internment in British English:
UK [ɪn'tɜ:nmənt]
How to pronounce internment in American English:
US [ɪnˈtənmənt]
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- Noun:
- confinement during wartime
- the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
- placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
Word Origin
- internment (n.)
- 1870, from intern (v.) + -ment. Compare French internement. Internment camp is attested from 1916.
Example
- 1. Another concession is improving mr ocalan 's conditions of internment .
- 2. Lenzner escaped from nazi internment and certain death essentially by sheer luck .
- 3. Thousands are thought to have died in the final few days of fighting , and tens of thousands of tamil civilians reached internment camps in desperate conditions .
- 4. I contacted various sources in the british intelligence community who forty years down the line were willing to share their recollections of what had happened , and why , during internment in 1971 .