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Synonyms for internment
ɪnˈtɜrn məntin·tern·ment
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Princeton's WordNet
internmentnoun
confinement during wartime
Synonyms:
impoundment, impounding, imprisonment, poundageimprisonment, internmentnoun
the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
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poundage, captivity, impounding, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarcerationimpoundment, impounding, internment, poundagenoun
placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
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imprisonment, impoundment, impounding, poundage
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List of paraphrases for "internment":
confinement, detention, placement, committal, institutionalization, incarceration
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#4526 | placement | |
#10067 | detention | |
#13920 | imprisonment | |
#19967 | confinement | |
#27832 | captivity | |
#28482 | incarceration | |
#45055 | internment | |
#50478 | impoundment | |
#57671 | institutionalization | |
#73937 | committal | |
#112916 | impounding | |
#160892 | poundage |
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Yay, no more baby internment camps.
This is racial stereotyping. Does he greet others in their ancestral language ? this mentality led to a period in American history that saw 120,000 men, women and children, including my grandfathers, sent to internment camps after World War II.
Repeatedly accusing the Jewish state of Israel of ‘genocide,' ‘apartheid,' and other fictitious crimes while praising China, a country that is putting Muslims in internment camps, indicates an irrational hatred of Jews and not a concern for human rights, with regards to Jews, diversity heads seem to share much in common with grand wizards of the Ku Klux Klan, and it is clear that the entire field needs to be reevaluated before more Jewish students are placed at unnecessary risk.
It is unethical to continue investing there, you can't do business with a country that has internment camps, especially when you know there is a camp in that region.
Amid growing international condemnation, the PRC continues to commit genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, the United States reiterates The United States calls on the PRC to bring an end to the repression of Uyghurs, who are predominantly Muslim, and members of other ethnic and religious minority groups in Xinjiang, including by releasing all those arbitrarily held in internment camps and detention facilities.
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