Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

penal-industrial complex

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.42 in modern English

Syllables: pe-nal-in-dus-tri-al -com-plex
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

8

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of prison-industrial complex.

Example Sentences

"This "incarceration mania" has received, for some time now, much critical attention in the media. Excellent scholarship has been written addressing the surge in ircarceration in this country and what has come to be known as the penal-industrial complex."

Synonyms

prison-industrial complex

Questions

What does penal-industrial complex mean?: Synonym of prison-industrial complex.

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