Workhouse

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• workhouse — work·house n: a correctional facility for persons guilty of minor criminal violations Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. workhouse …   Law dictionary

• workhouse — ● workhouse nom masculin (anglais workhouse, de work, travail, et house, maison) En Angleterre et au pays de Galles, établissement officiel qui, du XVIe au début du XXe s., hébergeait et faisait travailler les pauvres et les vagabonds. (En Écosse …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Workhouse — Work house , n.; pl. {Workhouses}. [AS. weorch[=u]s.] [1913 Webster] 1. A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. [1913 Webster] 2. A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. [1913 Webster] 3. A house where… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Workhouse — (engl., spr. ŭörkhaus), »Arbeitshaus« für Arme in England, s. Armenwesen, S. 787, und Arbeitshäuser …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• Workhouse — (spr. wörkhaus), in England das Arbeitshaus für Arme …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

• workhouse — ► NOUN 1) historical (in the UK) a public institution in which poor people received board and lodging in return for work. 2) US a prison in which petty offenders are expected to work …   English terms dictionary

• workhouse — [wʉrk′hous΄] n. 1. Obs. a WORKSHOP (sense 1) 2. Historical in England, a poorhouse in which able residents had to work ☆ 3. a kind of prison, where petty offenders are confined and made to work …   English World dictionary

• Workhouse — Former workhouse in Nantwich, dating from 1780 In England and Wales a workhouse, colloquially known as a …   Wikipedia

• Workhouse — Un workhouse (littéralement, « foyer de travail ») était un lieu qui accueillait au Royaume Uni les personnes incapables de subvenir seules à leur besoin. Elles pouvaient y vivre en échange de leur travail. L objectif était d arrêter de …   Wikipédia en Français

• workhouse — [[t]wɜ͟ː(r)khaʊs[/t]] workhouses N COUNT 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… …   English dictionary