labour camp

English

Alternative forms

• labor camp (US)

Noun

labour camp (plural labour camps)

1. A type of prison where prisoners are obliged to do forced labour, usually outdoors.

   The labour camps of the old Soviet Union are well described by the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Translations

type of prison

• Arabic: مُعَسْكَر عَمَل m (muʕaskar ʕamal), مُعَسْكَر أَشْغَال m (muʕaskar ʔašḡāl)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勞改營／劳改营 (zh) (láogǎiyíng)

• Danish: arbejdslejr c
• Dutch: arbeidskamp n, werkkamp (nl) n
• Finnish: työleiri (fi), vankileiri (fi)
• French: camp de travail (fr) m
• German: Arbeitslager (de) n
• Korean: 노동수용소(勞動收容所) (nodongsuyongso), 로동수용소(勞動收容所) (rodongsuyongso) (North Korea)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arbeidsleir m

  Nynorsk: arbeidsleir m

• Polish: obóz pracy m
• Russian: трудово́й ла́герь m (trudovój lágerʹ)
• Swedish: arbetsläger (sv) n

See also

• workcamp