Synonym: impounding, impoundment, imprisonment, poundage. Similar words: government, discernment, misgovernment, federal government, government monopoly, entertainment, adornment, interment. Meaning: [ɪn'tɜrnmənt /-'tɜːn-] 
n. 1. confinement during wartime 2. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) 3. placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law.
n. 1. confinement during wartime 2. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) 3. placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law. 31. The site of a Japanese internment camp during World War II has been transformed into the Heart Mountain Interpretive Learning Center in Wyoming.
More similar words: government, discernment, misgovernment, federal government, government monopoly, entertainment, adornment, interment, intern, internal, Internet, Comintern, internship, internecine, international, internalization, enter into, intermittent, intervention, public international law, private international law, internal revenue service, interdependent, nonintervention, interventionism, intercontinental, international relations, interpreter, alignment, abandonment.