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Internment : (noun)
1: confinement during wartime
2: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
prison) [syn: imprisonment]
3: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the
law [syn: impoundment, impounding, poundage]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Internment : \In*tern"ment\, n. [F. internement. See Intern.]
Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to
the interior of a country.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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