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Meaning of workhouse

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

workhouse

noun

Definitions

  1. An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work. Wp

  2. A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.

  3. A factory; a place of manufacture.