internment

2 definitions found

internment - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

internment - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  internment
      n 1: confinement during wartime
      2: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
         prison) [syn: imprisonment, internment]
      3: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the
         law [syn: impoundment, impounding, internment,
         poundage]