internment
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- n confinement during wartime
- n the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
- n placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
- Chief among them: Was the internment justified in the context of its time? Is it necessary or right to apologize for a difficult decision made under unprecedented wartime pressure?.
- In his first major role, the 13-year-old Bale plays Jim Graham, a boy who, after being separated from his family in Shanghai, becomes a prisoner of war in a Japanese internment .
- To the police he arrogantly proclaimed the pro-Naziism which had earned him long internment.