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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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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colònia penal"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "liúfàngdì",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "流放地"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "strafkolonie"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "colonie pénale"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "rangaistussiirtola"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "työsiirtola"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Strafkolonie"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "straffekoloni"
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"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "colonial territory",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "straffekoloni"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "pranka",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "پرانقه"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"raw_tags": [
"for young offenders"
],
"roman": "ispravítelʹnaja kolónija",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"especially",
"feminine"
],
"word": "исправи́тельная коло́ния"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"raw_tags": [
"for military offenders"
],
"roman": "štrafnája kolónija",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"especially",
"feminine"
],
"word": "штрафна́я коло́ния"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colonia penal"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
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"common-gender"
],
"word": "straffkoloni"
},
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "ceza kolonisi"
}
]
}
],
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"translations": [
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"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colònia penal"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "liúfàngdì",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "流放地"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "strafkolonie"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "colonie pénale"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "rangaistussiirtola"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "työsiirtola"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Strafkolonie"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "straffekoloni"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "straffekoloni"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "pranka",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "پرانقه"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"raw_tags": [
"for young offenders"
],
"roman": "ispravítelʹnaja kolónija",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"especially",
"feminine"
],
"word": "исправи́тельная коло́ния"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"raw_tags": [
"for military offenders"
],
"roman": "štrafnája kolónija",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"especially",
"feminine"
],
"word": "штрафна́я коло́ния"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "colonia penal"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "straffkoloni"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "colonial territory",
"word": "ceza kolonisi"
}
],
"word": "penal colony"
}
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