reeducation camp

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination. euphemistic
    — Although the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now encourages Vietnamese refugees to visit their native land, many refuse to do so, fearing that [...] they would be hustled off to reeducation camps to face starvation, over-work, and slow death.
  2. A camp where people are rehabilitated to health, especially after injury. dated
    — By degrees the seriously wounded were concentrated in this hospital, which remained open till 1919, and the discharged drafted to a Belgian reeducation camp in France.

词形变化

reeducation camps plural

词源

From reeducation + camp. First use appears c. 1935 in the Oakland Tribune.
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