| 单词 | labour colony |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslabour colony labour colony n. = labour camp n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > penal settlement > labour camp labour camp1833 labour colony1857 work camp1877 1857 Daily News 27 Jan. 4/4 Better a convict labour colony on Dartmoor, than a convict penal settlement in the Falkland Islands. 1888 Charity Organ. Rev. Jan. 43 The Council would gladly see an experiment made in the form of a Labour Colony, to which unemployed townspeople might be sent for a time, and where they would be employed with a view to undertaking labouring work in a colony. 1934 Cape Times 12 Jan. 9/7 The ‘scollie’ boys could be rounded up and sent to labour colonies. 2000 Europe-Asia Stud. 52 1258 The Central Corrective Labour Administration of Compulsory Labour..directed correction and work houses and provincial and district labour colonies in rural areas. < as lemmas |
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