reeducation camp

English

Etymology

From reeducation +‎ camp. Attested since the twentieth century.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æmp

Noun

reeducation camp (plural reeducation camps)

1. (euphemistic) A camp or prison where ideological dissidents undergo reeducation or indoctrination.
   • 1989, James Freeman, Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives‎^[1], page 11:

     Although the Socialist Republic of Vietnam now encourages Vietnamese refugees to visit their native land, many refuse to do so, fearing that [...] they would be hustled off to reeducation camps to face starvation, over-work, and slow death.

2. (dated) A camp where people are rehabilitated to health, especially after injury.
   • 1922, “Women's War Work”, in Hugh Chisolm, editor, The Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 32, page 1064:

     By degrees the seriously wounded were concentrated in this hospital, which remained open till 1919, and the discharged drafted to a Belgian reeducation camp in France.

Translations

camp where dissidents undergo reeducation

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 再教育營／再教育营 (zàijiàoyùyíng), 勞改營／劳改营 (zh) (láogǎiyíng)

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: uudelleenkoulutusleiri
• French: camp de rééducation m
• German: Umerziehungslager (de) n
• Kazakh: қайта тәрбиелеу лагері (qaita tärbieleu lagerı)
• Kyrgyz: кайра тарбиялоо лагери (kayra tarbiyaloo lageri)
• Russian: ла́герь перевоспита́ния m (lágerʹ perevospitánija)
• Swedish: omskolningsläger n
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: yeniden eğitim kampı
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uyghur: قايتا تەربىيەلەش لاگىرى (qayta terbiyelesh lagiri)