Encampment in a sentence as a noun

The workers lived in an encampment next to the construction site.

The Occupy protests in NYC turned into an encampment of people for some time.

You should be able to see Sean Miller on that northern Africa encampment pretty easily now.

The freeway overpass pictured just across the street is a homeless encampment strewn with shopping carts, human feces, and needles.

Eventually, some of those pictures are used to strategically bomb an insurgent encampment.

It wasn't reported until much later but during the Occupy movement, rapes skyrocketed around and among the encampments.

They weren't homeless people, but I fail to see the difference between an encampment of homeless in a public space vs an encampment of protestors in a public space.

Which, again, is in stark contrast to something like Golden Gate Park here in SF where there has been a large homeless encampment for at least as long as I have lived here and probably longer[3].

It's the same ideology that fuels us continuing to search for bodies to this day. These same people, of the same convictions, right before the war attacked an encampment of veterans from WWI who were seeking early cash out of their war bonds because they were already homeless and had lost everything.

There's a ton of wealth in SF, and seemingly more per-capita empathy for the less fortunate than anyplace in the entire country, and yet major parts of the city feel like one huge homeless encampment.

You’d follow your radio transmitter to a homeless encampment with 20 more bikes piled up, then comes the question of whether you can talk your way out of that desperate thief not getting a hit of a drug or bottle and giving you your bike back.

Perhaps it's a totem, a reminder, that not all tech is interested in working together, that unlike the web itself you are entering an Apple or an Atari or Acorn specific encampment, for some random examples.

Encampment definitions

noun

a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

See also: campsite campground bivouac

noun

temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling"

See also: camp cantonment bivouac

noun

the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

See also: camping bivouacking tenting