Workhouse

Definition

workhouse /'wɜ:khaƱs/ n ( pl -houses / -'haƱzÇz/) ( Brit ) (ေရွး) သူဆင္းရဲတို႔ကို ေနစရာႏွင့္ အလုပ္ေပးရာ ေဂဟာ။

Examples

1. ‘Unlike Boston
2. which had the financial resources to build more than one public institution for the poor
3. many towns in New England only built one institution
4. either a workhouse or an almshouse.’
5. ‘The grants are being offered for work on everything from thatched cottages to stately homes and castles
6. large and small country houses
7. town houses
8. churches
9. workhouses and public buildings
10. including an old post office.’
11. ‘The overarching vision of a totally deterrent New Poor Law where relief would only be administered in the workhouse clashed with local parish budgets and the reality of the family wage economy.’
12. ‘Overnight accommodation varied
13. from the the casual wards of local workhouses to more friendly lodgings and municipally-arranged feasts.’
14. ‘But at the time the only alleviation remained the institution of workhouses
15. although philanthropists were constructing almshouses
16. cheap housing for the poor.’
17. ‘There were 400 there
18. including 46 inmates at the workhouse.’
19. ‘No matter how we felt about the workhouse the inmates who had been there quite awhile
20. like myself
21. had learnt not to even mention running away.’
22. ‘Individual supervisors of public works or of workhouses might be named
23. but there was no global critique of political institutions.’