workhouse

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