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Workhouse
workhouse
(workhouses) In Britain, in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, a workhouse was a place where very poor people could live and do unpleasant jobs in return for food. People use the workhouse to refer to these places in general. ...a struggling Shropshire family which lived in fear of the workhouse. = poorhouse N-COUNT
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1.
noun Date: 1630 1. British poorhouse 2. a house of correction for persons guilty of minor law violations ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
n. 1 Brit. hist. a public institution in which the destitute of a parish received board and lodging in return for work done. 2 US a house of correction for petty offenders. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
3.
1. ист. работный дом (в Англии) 2. ам. исправительная тюрьма; исправительно-трудовой лагерь 3. мор. жарг. корабль 4. ист. мастерская; мануфактура ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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