He worked at a workhouse.
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Workhouse
Synonyms for "workhouse" (50 found)
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5 translations across 4 languages.
Finnish
2 entries- työkoti noun (prison where the sentence includes manual labour)
- vaivaistalo noun (prison where the sentence includes manual labour)
Latin
1 entries- ergastulum noun (prison where the sentence includes manual labour)
Polish
1 entries- zakład karny pracy przymusowej noun (prison where the sentence includes manual labour)
Swedish
1 entries- tvångsarbetsanstalt noun (prison where the sentence includes manual labour)
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Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, […] the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
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"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." / "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve.[…]"
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The New Poor Law of 1834, a statute of quite uncommon callousness, gave [to the labourer] poor relief only within the new workhouses (where he had to seperate from wife and child to discourage the sentimental and unmalthusian habit of thoughtless procreation) and withdrawing the parish guarantee of a minimum livelihood.
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