internmentnoun [ U ]
uk/ɪnˈtɜːn.mənt/us/ɪnˈtɝːn.mənt/the act of putting someone in prison for political or military reasons, especially during a war:
an internment camp
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Putting people in prison
- at His/Her Majesty's pleasure idiom
- bang
- bang sb up
- bar
- behind bars idiom
- bird
- hold
- immured
- imprison
- incarcerate
- jail
- lag
- lock
- pen
- restraint
- rot
- rot in jail, prison, etc. idiom
- send
- send sb down
- serve
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