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Definition of Internment
1. Noun. Confinement during wartime.
2. Noun. The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison).
Generic synonyms: Confinement
Specialized synonyms: Lockdown, False Imprisonment, Custody
Derivative terms: Imprison, Intern
3. Noun. Placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law.
Generic synonyms: Seizure
Specialized synonyms: Drug Bust, Drugs Bust
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Impound, Impound, Pound
Definition of Internment
1. n. Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.
Definition of Internment
1. Noun. Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Internment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Internment
Literary usage of Internment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"internment of Belligerent War Ships with their Officers and Crews in Neutral Ports.
... Under these conditions their internment was inadmissible. ..."
2. A Source-book of Military Law and War-time Legislation by John Henry Wigmore, United States War Dept. Committee on Education and Special Training (1919)
"The theory of such internment is simply that the person interned is dangerous.
... Such an internment is a process applied to civilians by civilians and for ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1921)
"Exclusion, Expulsion and internment of Aliens. Finally as a defensive measure
Congress has authorized the exclusion and internment of alien enemies in time ..."
4. The Control of American Foreign Relations by Quincy Wright (1922)
"Exclusion, Expulsion and internment of Aliens. Finally as a defensive measure
Congress has authorized the exclusion and internment of alien enemies in time ..."
5. The Elements of International Law: With an Account of Its Origin, Sources by George Breckenridge Davis (1915)
"... the upper portion being colored black and the lower portion white.1 THE
internment OF PRISONERS OF WAR The term "internment," as used in the Geneva ..."
6. International Law by John Westlake (1907)
"Section IV—On the internment of Belligerents and the Care of the Wounded in
Neutral Countries. ART. LVII. A neutral state which receives in its territory ..."
7. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"Bankers M 95:605-15 N '17 Brandeis, Erich Dementia germánica. Am Law R 52:571-86
Jl '18 Little Prussia in an internment camp. ..."
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