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Collocations for camp - noun

1. in tents/huts

ADJECTIVE

makeshift, temporary
day (AmE), holiday (BrE), sleepaway (AmE), summer
basketball, football, music, etc. (all esp. AmE)
The kids were at basketball camp most of the summer.
scout
base
The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain.
Gypsy, travellers' (BrE)
army, boot, military
training
rebel, terrorist
fishing, hunting (both esp. AmE)
mining

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VERB + camp

establish, make, pitch, set up
They established a base camp by the river.
We pitched camp just outside the woods.
be located
break, strike
We broke camp early the next morning.
leave
attend, go to
There are opportunities for children to attend summer camps.
attack, destroy, raid
Militants raided an army camp.

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camp + NOUN

fire (usually campfire)
We sat around the campfire.
site (usually campsite)

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PREPOSITION

at (a/the) camp
The children are spending a week at a summer camp.

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2. prison, etc.

ADJECTIVE

concentration, detention, internment, labour/labor, POW, prison, prisoner-of-war, re-education
death, extermination
transit
refugee
the appalling conditions in the refugee camps

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VERB + camp

be sent to
enter
liberate

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camp + NOUN

inmate
guard
survivor
concentration camp survivors

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PREPOSITION

in a/the camp
She spent five years in a prison camp.

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3. group with shared beliefs

ADJECTIVE

hostile, opposing, rival (esp. BrE), warring
ideological, political
armed
The region split into two armed camps.

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VERB + camp

divide into, split into

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PREPOSITION

in a/the camp
people in both main political camps

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PHRASES

have a foot in both camps (= show loyalty to two different groups)
He can unite the party because he has a foot in both camps.

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Collocations for camp - verb

Camp is used with these nouns as the subject:
army

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