Meaning Of The Word Workhouse

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workhouse
countable noun: 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.

workhouse in American English
a workshop (sense 1)
noun: a house of correction

workhouse in British English
noun: (formerly in England) an institution maintained at public expense where poor people did unpaid work in return for food and accommodation

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