ADJ
- makeshift, temporary
- holiday, summer
- base
- The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain
- transit
- gypsy, travellers'
- army, military
- training
VERB + CAMP
- make, pitch, set up
- We pitched camp just outside the woods
- break, strike
- We broke camp early the next morning
- leave
CAMP + NOUN
- fire (also campfire)
- sitting round the campfire
- site (also campsite)
PREP
- at a/the ~
- The children are spending a week at a summer camp
ADJ
- concentration, detention, internment, labour, prison, prisoner-of-war
- death, extermination
- refugee
- the appalling conditions in the refugee camps
PREP
- in a/the ~
- She spent five years in a labour camp
ADJ
- hostile, opposing, rebel, rival
- ideological, political
- armed
- The region split into two armed camps
VERB + CAMP
- switch
- a politician who switches camp when it suits him
- divide into, split into
PREP
- in a/the ~
- people in both main political camps
PHRASES
- have a foot in both camps (= show loyalty to two different groups)
- He can unite the party because he has a foot in both camps