as in campgrounds
a place where a group of people live for a short time in tents or cabins
a recreational area that will serve as this year's encampment for the Scouts' jamboree
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Recent Examples of encampments
Starting in 2016, to help respond to spikes in immigrant crossings that had periodically overwhelmed border stations, Deployed began setting up tent encampments to ease the overcrowding.
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Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2025
The county has rejected encampments as undignified, potentially unsafe solutions to the homelessness crisis.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
Complaints of panhandling have jumped 2,000%, while calls about homeless encampments have jumped 500%.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2025
Another documentary takes cameras inside the pro-Palestinian student encampments last spring.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2025
Last spring’s encampments at colleges across Chicago were eventually dismantled by police.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Many of the encampments at colleges across Chicago were eventually dismantled by police, leaving lawn chairs and colorful student artwork dotting the muddy grass of campus quads.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Newsom wanted encampments off state land.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Rachel Laing, a spokesperson for Mayor Todd Gloria, estimated that since the start of last year more than 60 local fires had begun by encampments next to roadways.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2025
The county has rejected encampments as undignified, potentially unsafe solutions to the homelessness crisis.
—Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2025
Complaints of panhandling have jumped 2,000%, while calls about homeless encampments have jumped 500%.
—Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2025
Another documentary takes cameras inside the pro-Palestinian student encampments last spring.
—Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2025
Last spring’s encampments at colleges across Chicago were eventually dismantled by police.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Many of the encampments at colleges across Chicago were eventually dismantled by police, leaving lawn chairs and colorful student artwork dotting the muddy grass of campus quads.
—Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
Newsom wanted encampments off state land.
—Karen Billing, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Rachel Laing, a spokesperson for Mayor Todd Gloria, estimated that since the start of last year more than 60 local fires had begun by encampments next to roadways.
—Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
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“Encampments.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/encampments. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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