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How to pronounce internee in English?

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Type Words
Type of captive, prisoner
Derivation intern


the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists.

Examples of internee

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Until 1942, it was not even a technical offence to aid the escape of an internee.
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Only one internee is known to have died while on a fishing expedition.
From the latimes.com
He also learned woodworking from a fellow internee who had been trained as a carpenter in Japan.
From the time.com
The writer and Jewish internee Robert Aron estimated the popular executions to a number of 40,000 in 1960.
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At the age of 15 in 1973, Murphy had been the youngest republican internee in Long Kesh jail, which later became the Maze.
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The experience of the immigrant and the internee informs much of the exhibition, which is as important historically as aesthetically.
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He did succeed in putting the time on the voyage and in the camp to valuable use, though, acquiring a working knowledge of Russian from a fellow internee.
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I'd read an account of Wodehouse betraying a fellow internee when the authorities threatened to reduce rations unless someone came forward.
From the guardian.co.uk
In 1983, the commission recommended that the president and Congress should make a formal apology, issue $20,000 checks to each surviving internee and establish an educational trust fund.
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More examples
  • A person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists"
  • Civilian Internee is a special status of a prisoner under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Civilian Internees are civilians who are detained by a party to a war for security reasons. Historical examples include Japanese American internment in the United States during World War II.
  • One who is imprisoned or otherwise confined
  • A person who is interned, especially during wartime. This term has been used to define Japanese Americans and legal residents of Japanese ancestry who were interned and incarcerated during World War II. Legally, this term refers to the imprisonment of civilian enemy aliens during wartime.
  • A person interned pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act.
  • A person who is imprisoned without trial, especially in wartime.