Internment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Internment \In*tern"ment\, n. [F. internement. See {Intern}.]
     1. Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops,
        to the interior of a country.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Confining within a country for the duration of a war; --


        usually of citizens of a hostile power.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  internment
       n 1: confinement during wartime
       2: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a
          prison) [syn: {imprisonment}]
       3: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the
          law [syn: {impoundment}, {impounding}, {poundage}]