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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun internment has 3 senses
- internment(n = noun.state) Array - confinement during wartime; Array is a kind of captivity, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration
- internment(n = noun.act) imprisonment - the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison); Array is a kind of confinement
- internment(n = noun.act) impounding, impoundment, poundage - placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law; Array is a kind of seizure
Derived form verb intern1
has particulars: lockdown, false imprisonment, custody
Derived form verb intern1
has particulars: drug bust, drugs bust
CIDE DICTIONARY
internment, n. [F. internement. See Intern.].
- Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country. [1913 Webster]
- Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power. [PJC]
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