Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is interned or confined, especially in wartime.
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- noun one who is
imprisoned or otherwiseconfined
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who is interned
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here are our three featured speakers: Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal (left), former Transportation Secretary (and Heart Mountain internee) Norman Mineta (middle), and former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.
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Here are our three featured speakers: Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal (left), former Transportation Secretary (and Heart Mountain internee) Norman Mineta (middle), and former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.
Is That Legal?: Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Unveils Two Important Plaques 2007
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Here are our three featured speakers: Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal (left), former Transportation Secretary (and Heart Mountain internee) Norman Mineta (middle), and former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson.
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The job posting did say "internee," but I thought it was a typo
GMSV John Murrell 2010
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The job posting did say "internee," but I thought it was a typo
GMSV John Murrell 2010
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Congress in 1988, authorizing President Ronald Reagan to apologize for the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans during World War II and to compensate each living internee a sum of $20,000.
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A column about the wartime experiences of her mother, who was a child internee of the Japanese, was published in the Spring 09 edition of Foto8 Magazine.
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He was put up at the city's Adlon hotel, and was paid to make a series of broadcasts, mainly for American listeners, describing his life as an internee.
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If not, they often ended up doing odd jobs and living in internee camps.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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If not, they often ended up doing odd jobs and living in internee camps.
A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011
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