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UK
/ɪntˈɜːniː/
]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈni/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈni/ ]
NOUN
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a person who is interned
the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists
How To Use internee In A Sentence
- And military intelligence probably did ‘request’ that internees be softened up a bit to aid interrogations.
- the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists
- The internees had done nothing wrong, but many felt shamed by being singled out, locked away, accused of disloyalty; to criticize the government might seem to prove they were in some way guilty.
- One night, while I was in the Black Bull pub in the Markets district talking to Official republicans, news came that seven internees had escaped from a prison ship in Belfast harbour.
- This brought more Poles into the Soviet orbit including civilian refugees, military internees, and pre-war Polish residents of Lithuania.
- Sponsored by a group of former German American and Latin American internees and their families, the German American Internee Coalition web site (www. gaic.info) has a wealth of information. Is That Legal?: Congress Should Look Into German-American Internment During WWII
- Since Switzerland was a nonbelligerent, the airmen were not considered either prisoners of war or evaders; having entered the country armed and willingly, they were classified as internees. Masters of the Air
- The condition is unfair and discriminates against civilians, as it does not apply to military internees.
- Compiled chiefly from interviews with former internees and their kin, it concentrates on five detainees of very different backgrounds, but alike in their appalling victimization.
- He claimed that his classes were the reason that none of the internees in his block suffered from the flu epidemic of 1918!