(isim) düşkünler evi, darülaceze, ıslahevi [amer.]

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workhouse
a prison in which the sentence includes manual labour
formerly, an institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work
{n} a receptacle for parish-poor
a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months
A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor
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. a building in Britain in the past where very poor people lived if they had nowhere else to go = poorhouse
{i} shelter providing work; poorhouse for unemployed and criminals
a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop
A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse
(isim) düşkünler evi, darülaceze, ıslahevi [amer.]