boot camp

See also: bootcamp

English

Etymology

From boot in the US military slang sense of “new recruit” + camp.

Pronunciation

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Noun

boot camp (plural boot camps)

1. (chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) Initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in service-related subjects for new recruits in the armed forces (army, Air Force, navy and Marine Corps).
2. (chiefly Canada, US) A short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term.
3. (chiefly Canada, US, idiomatic) Any short, intensive course of training.

   We will institute a boot camp for training the sales force in these new products.

Synonyms

• basic training

Translations

initial, basic indoctrination, physical fitness training and basic instruction in armed forces

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 訓練營地／训练营地 (xùnliàn yíngdì), 训练营地 (xùnliàn yíngdì), 新兵訓練營／新兵训练营 (xīnbīng xùnliàn yíng), 新兵训练营 (xīnbīng xùnliàn yíng)

• Czech: přijímač (cs) m
• French: classes (fr) f pl
• German: Trainingslager (de) n, Bootcamp n
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• Hebrew: טירונות (he) f (tironut)
• Hungarian: kiképzőtábor (hu)
• Japanese: 新兵訓練所 (shinpei kunrenjo)
• Russian: уче́бный ла́герь m (učébnyj lágerʹ), курс молодо́го бойца́ m (kurs molodóvo bojcá)

a short, intensive, quasi-military program generally aimed at young offenders as an alternative to a jail term

• Russian: исправи́тельная коло́ния f (ispravítelʹnaja kolónija)
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any short, intensive course of training

• Finnish: intensiivikurssi
• Hungarian: intenzív kiképzés
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• Russian: уче́бный курс m (učébnyj kurs), интенси́вный курс m (intɛnsívnyj kurs)