work camp

1. 1.

   a camp for trustworthy prisoners employed in government projects

   Synonymsprison campprison farm

   Broadercamp

Questions about work camp

What does work camp mean?

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

What is another word for work camp?

Close synonyms include prison camp, prison farm. 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 work camp a common word?

work camp is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.