Look up: internment

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   internment
   [n] - confinement during wartime
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   internment
   Detention of suspected criminals without trial. Internment had been practised since the 18th century in times of crisis under the suspension of the writ of habeus corpus. In the 20th century a...
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   internment
   Detention of suspected criminals without trial. Foreign citizens are often interned during times of war or civil unrest. Internment was introduced for the detention of people suspected of terrorist...
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   Internment
   In·tern'ment noun [ French internement . See Intern .] Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
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   Internment
   `Internment` is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The `Oxford English Dictionary` (1989) gives the meaning as `The action of ‘interning`; confinement within the limits of a country or place`. Most modern usage is about individuals, and there is a distinction between `internment`, which is being confined usually for preventative or political reasons, and imprisonment, which is being closely confi...
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   Internment
   • (n.) Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
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   internment
   
   1. confinement during wartime
   2. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
   3. placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
   
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   internment
   internment, in international law, detention of the nationals or property of an enemy or a belligerent. A belligerent will intern enemy merchant ships or take them as prize, and a neutral should intern both belligerent ships that fail to leave its ports within a specified time and belligerent troops ...
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