Hypertext Webster Gateway: "internment"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Internment \In*tern"ment\, n. [F. internement. See {Intern}.]
Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to
the interior of a country.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
internment
n 1: confinement during wartime
2: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
prison) [syn: {imprisonment}]
3: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the
law [syn: {impoundment}, {impounding}, {poundage}]
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