labor camp


noun

Also called slave labor camp. a penal colony where inmates are forced to work.
a camp for the shelter of migratory farm workers.

Origin of labor camp

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example sentences from the Web for labor camp

  • Let's go; I want a look at what's going on down at the equipment-park and the labor-camp, first.

    Uller Uprising |Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
  • Otherwise the tenement and labor-camp experiences in America would soon spoil them.

    Aliens or Americans? |Howard B. Grose
  • "Try landing south of the Reservation, a little west of the ruins of the labor-camp," he advised.

    Uller Uprising |Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr