From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishprison/labour/detention etc campprison/labour/detention etc campPRISONa place where people are kept for a particular reason, when they do not want to be there a refugee camp just across the border → concentration camp → camp
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refugee camp• Our neighborhood looked like a refugee camp, bursting its seams.• Over 100 more Tamils were reportedly killed in further reprisals against refugee camps and villages on Aug. 12-14.• In the internal refugee camps, they helped in nursery care and literacy programmes.• They ofren grew on the sites, indeed out of the debris, of old refugee camps.• As a way of encouraging them to return, food aid to the refugee camps has been withheld since last summer.• He returned to the refugee camp where his family has lived since 1948. 