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# re-education

noun (re-education; also re-educate, re-educates, re-educated, re-educating)

«re-education» in the English dictionary: in the primary school — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In the primary school

Source: Mova's pupils' dictionary. Licence: [Elamur Cosmic License](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/LICENSE/). Reviewed: the dictionary the pupils of Mova's primary school read; its examples quote the lessons and public-domain tales. Ships with Mova.

### Meaning

1. (euphemism, official) forced teaching of political ideas to people who disagree with a government, often in camps they cannot leave.
2. teaching someone again or teaching new habits, for example after an injury ("muscle re-education").

### In the lessons

Used by some governments to make prison camps and brainwashing sound like schools; news reports put it in quotation marks to show it is a euphemism. The plain sense is used in medicine and training.

### Examples

- The government sent thousands of people to so-called re-education camps.
- Reporters say "re-education" there really means prison and brainwashing.
- After the operation she needed re-education of the muscles in her hand.
- In history we read about re-education camps after the war.
- "Re-education" sounds like school, but people were not free to go home.
- Drivers caught speeding sometimes take a re-education course.

### Note

Two very different senses: a harmless re-learning course versus forced political camps. Watch the context. Spelled with a hyphen in British use, often "reeducation" in American use.