reconcentrado

CIDE DICTIONARY

reconcentrado, n. [Sp., p.p. of reconcentrar to inclose, to reconcentrate.].

 Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, the Philippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the rural noncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities in areas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentrated in the smaller limits of the towns themselves.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]