"penal colony" meaning in English

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        "A colonial territory used (mainly) for the detention and forced labor of deportees, typically where free labor is desperately scarce."
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        [
          "colonial",
          "colonial"
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        [
          "forced labor",
          "forced labor"
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        [
          "deportee",
          "deportee"
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          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "colònia penal"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "liúfàngdì",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "流放地"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "strafkolonie"
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          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "colonie pénale"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "rangaistussiirtola"
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "työsiirtola"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "Strafkolonie"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "straffekoloni"
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          "sense": "colonial territory",
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          "word": "straffekoloni"
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          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "pranka",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "پرانقه"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "raw_tags": [
            "for young offenders"
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          "roman": "ispravítelʹnaja kolónija",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "tags": [
            "especially",
            "feminine"
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          "word": "исправи́тельная коло́ния"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
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            "for military offenders"
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          "roman": "štrafnája kolónija",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
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            "especially",
            "feminine"
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          "word": "штрафна́я коло́ния"
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          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "colonia penal"
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
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          "word": "straffkoloni"
        },
        {
          "code": "tr",
          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "colonial territory",
          "word": "ceza kolonisi"
        }
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  "word": "penal colony"
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      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "colònia penal"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "liúfàngdì",
      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "word": "流放地"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "word": "strafkolonie"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "word": "colonie pénale"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "word": "rangaistussiirtola"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "word": "työsiirtola"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
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      "word": "Strafkolonie"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
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      "word": "straffekoloni"
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      "word": "straffekoloni"
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      "roman": "ispravítelʹnaja kolónija",
      "sense": "colonial territory",
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        "especially",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "исправи́тельная коло́ния"
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      "roman": "štrafnája kolónija",
      "sense": "colonial territory",
      "tags": [
        "especially",
        "feminine"
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      "word": "штрафна́я коло́ния"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
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      "word": "colonia penal"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
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      "word": "straffkoloni"
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      "sense": "colonial territory",
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  "word": "penal colony"
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