work camp
noun
: a camp for workers: such as
b
: a short-term group project in which individuals from one or more religious organizations volunteer their labor
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After an attempt to find a new sanctuary goes awry, Caesar and the apes find themselves in a brutal work camp run by the spine-chillingly creepy Colonel (Woody Harrelson).
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Author Antonia Hylton masterfully explores all 93 years of the institution’s existence, from its humble beginnings as a small work camp to its end as a walled city housing thousands of patients.
—Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 May 2024
Each one drags the viewer through endless human suffering, whether behind the gates of Auschwitz or in a Soviet work camp or even in a Paris atelier where Dior is all but forced to design gowns for the wives of the Nazi officers whose minions are holding his sister, Catherine, captive.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
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Barry Levitt, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Author Antonia Hylton masterfully explores all 93 years of the institution’s existence, from its humble beginnings as a small work camp to its end as a walled city housing thousands of patients.
—Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him.
—Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 14 May 2024
Each one drags the viewer through endless human suffering, whether behind the gates of Auschwitz or in a Soviet work camp or even in a Paris atelier where Dior is all but forced to design gowns for the wives of the Nazi officers whose minions are holding his sister, Catherine, captive.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20camp. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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