'Internment' definitions:
Definition of 'internment'
(from WordNet)
noun
Confinement during wartime
noun
The act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) [syn: imprisonment, internment]
noun
Placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law [syn: impoundment, impounding, internment, poundage]
Definition of 'Internment'
From: GCIDE
- Internment \In*tern"ment\, n. [F. internement. See Intern.]
- 1. Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Confining within a country for the duration of a war; -- usually of citizens of a hostile power. [PJC]
Words containing 'Internment'
- Intern,
- Internal,
- Internality,
- Internally,
- International,
- Internationalism,
- Internationally,
- Interne,
- Internity,
- internalization,
- internalize,
- internationality,
- internic,
- Internal angle,
- Internal gear,
- Internal navigation,
- International Falls,
- International code,
- International copyright,
- International law,
- The internal sense,
- internal auditor,
- internal combustion,
- internal control,
- internal drive,
- internal ear,
- internal medicine,
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- internal representation,
- internal respiration,
- internal revenue,
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- international affairs,
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- international grandmaster,
- international jihad,
- international joule,
- international mile,
- international organisation,
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- medical intern,
- rotary international,
- systeme international,
- Internal-combustion,
- International Date Line,
- International Falls, MN,
- International Morse Code,
- Private international law,
- balance of international payments,
- collector of internal revenue,
- internal auditory artery,
- internal auditory vein,
- internal carotid artery,
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- internal iliac artery,
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- internal jugular vein,
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- internal revenue agent,
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- international court of justice,
- international development association,
- international finance corporation,
- international intelligence agency,
- international labor organization,
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- international maritime organization,
- international monetary fund,
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- international system of units,
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- kennedy international airport,
- Internal-combustion engine,
- International Society for Krishna Consciousness,
- centre for international crime prevention,
- female internal reproductive organ,
- international association of lions clubs,
- international atomic energy agency,
- international bank for reconstruction and development,
- international civil aviation organization,
- international law enforcement agency,
- international relations and security network,
- male internal reproductive organ,
- systeme international d'unites,
- anti-imperialist international brigade,
- Le Systeme International de Unit'es,
- international islamic front for jihad against jews and crusaders,
- united nations international children's emergency fund,
- four-stroke internal-combustion engine