INTERNMENT

impoundment, impounding, internment, poundage

(noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law

imprisonment, internment

(noun) the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)

internment

(noun) confinement during wartime

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

internment (countable and uncountable, plural internments)

Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Source: Wiktionary


In*tern"ment, n. Etym: [F. internement. See Intern.]

Definition: Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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