INTERNMENT

By SovConn | June 21, 2013

internment (in-t<<schwa>>rn-m<<schwa>>nt), n. The government-ordered detention of people suspected of disloyalty to the government, such as the confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II. [Cases: War and National Emergency 51. C.J.S. War and National Defense § 68.] — intern,vb.

[Blacks Law 8th]

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