Definitions for: Internment


[n] placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
[n] the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
[n] confinement during wartime



Webster (1913) Definition: In*tern"ment, n. [F. internement. See Intern.]
Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to
the interior of a country.

Synonyms: impounding, impoundment, imprisonment, poundage

See Also: captivity, confinement, custody, false imprisonment, immurement, imprisonment, incarceration, seizure

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