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workhouse
CIDE DICTIONARY
workhouse, n. [AS. weorch.].
- A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop. [1913 Webster]
- A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor. [1913 Webster]
- A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
workhouse, n.
1 Brit. hist. a public institution in which the destitute of a parish received board and lodging in return for work done.
2 US a house of correction for petty offenders.
1 Brit. hist. a public institution in which the destitute of a parish received board and lodging in return for work done.
2 US a house of correction for petty offenders.
THESAURUS
workhouse
agency, almshouse, asylum, atelier, barbershop, beauty parlor, beauty shop, bench, butcher shop, company, concern, corporation, desk, establishment, facility, firm, foster home, halfway house, home, hospice, hospitium, house, installation, institution, loft, nursing home, organization, orphanage, parlor, poor farm, poorhouse, rest home, retreat, shop, studio, sweatshop, work site, work space, workbench, working space, workplace, workroom, workshop, worktableROGET THESAURUS
workhouse
Workshop
N workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.Prison
N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.For further exploring for "workhouse" in Webster Dictionary Online
