penal colony

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of criminals, typically where free labor is desperately scarce.
    — Australia was used as a penal colony by the United Kingdom in the 18th to 19th century.

词形变化

penal colonies plural
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