workhouse
workhouse · workhouses
An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the…An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
» He worked at a workhouse.
Значение
значений: 3(Британия, историческое)An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor
(США)A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
(архаичное)A place of manufacture; a factory.
Примеры
предложений: 1He worked at a workhouse.
Переводы
языков: 1Происхождение
From Middle English werkhous, from Old English weorchūs (“workshop, place of manufacture”)From Middle English werkhous, from Old English weorchūs (“workshop, place of manufacture”), from Proto-Germanic *werkahūsą, equivalent to work + house.
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