encampment

1. (countable, often, uncountable)A place where people (such as displaced people, soldiers, or travellers) encamp, that is, stay in tents or other temporary structures; a camp or campsite.

   Feldlager, Lager, Lagerplatz

2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)A place where people or things stay temporarily.

   a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)An enclosed or fortified prehistoric site, especially a European Iron Age hill-fort.

4. (broadly, countable, uncountable)A meeting (especially an annual meeting or important conference) of an outdoorsy group of people, such as military veterans or scouts of the scouting movement.

5. (uncountable)The act of encamping or setting up a camp; also, the state of being encamped or in a camp.

   the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

6. (broadly, countable, obsolete, uncountable)A meeting of Freemasons.

1. I'm bringing water to the homeless encampment.

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2. There's an encampment of orcs on the way.

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3. They will fight with great courage to protect the encampment.

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4. Tom lured the guards away so that he could sneak into the enemy encampment.

   deTom lockte die Wachposten weg, damit er ins feindliche Lager schleichen konnte.

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5. There's a homeless encampment there.

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