prison farm

1. 1.

   a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects

   Synonymswork campprison camp

   Broadercamp

Questions about prison farm

What does prison farm mean?

prison farm means "a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects".

What is another word for prison farm?

Close synonyms include work camp, prison camp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prison farm a common word?

prison farm 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.