death camp

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   a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed

   Broaderconcentration camp

Questions about death camp

What does death camp mean?

death camp means "a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed".

Is death camp a common word?

death camp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.