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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Ka•po n.

Military, Governmenta Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

Also, ka′po.

German, perh. shortening of French caporal corporal²

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