English - Turkish
Definition of workhouse in English Turkish dictionary
- ıslahhane
- {i} düşkünler evi
- ıslah evi
- {i} darülaceze
- {i} ıslahevi [amer.]
- düşkünler
- ıslahevi
English - English
Definition of workhouse in English English dictionary
- 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
- A workhouse
- poorhouse