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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

campo de trabalho

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈkɐ̃pu dɨ tɾɐˈbaʎu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Workcamp/ˈwɜːk.kæmp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles se inscreveram em um campo de trabalho voluntário."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An international voluntary camp where participants work together on community service, environmental, or social projects.

    "Students from all over the world joined the summer workcamp to help rebuild the historical village."
  2. 2

    A temporary residential site for workers engaged in large-scale remote projects such as construction or logging.

    "The remote pipeline required a fully equipped workcamp to house hundreds of engineers and laborers."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of the English nouns 'work' (from Old English 'weorc') and 'camp' (from Latin 'campus', meaning field). Originally emerging in the 20th century to describe organized gatherings where volunteers engage in communal labor, social projects, or environmental restoration.

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