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Deportation vs Internment - What's the difference?

deportation | internment |

As nouns the difference between deportation and internment

is that deportation is deportation while internment is confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.

deportation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of deporting or exiling, or the state of being deported; banishment; transportation.

    • Derived terms

    * self-deportation

    internment

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Confinement within narrow limits, as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country.