(n.) A dwelling for a number of paupers maintained at public expense; an almshouse; a workhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) A skeletal sample of 296 individuals from a 19th century American poorhouse cemetery is examined for the frequency and chronological distribution of linear enamel hypoplasias on the mandibular canines and maxillary central incisors.
(2) Drucker explains Freud's "obsession" with having lived in poverty as a manifestation of his "poorhouse neurosis."
(3) It was an irrational and deep-seated fear that an individual and his family were on the verge of being placed in the poorhouse because they lacked any funds.
(4) They were not a non-aligned country, but they were a nation that was supposedly outside of the western world – they were the poorhouse of Europe and so forth.
(5) At a recent psychoanalytic meeting I asked Freud scholar John Gedo of Chicago if he thought Freud experienced a "poorhouse neurosis.
(6) Kenedy's gesture won't put Bressan in the poorhouse.
(7) The hospitals were built for other groups in society and only the poorhouses were open to the elderly.
(8) Secondly, section 41(5) of the Representation of the People Act 1918 provided that “an inmate ... in any prison, lunatic asylum, workhouse, poorhouse, or any other similar institution” was not to be treated as resident there.
(9) New York could no longer serve as both poorhouse and cash machine for the nation.
(10) My elder sister died in the poorhouse at the age of six from tuberculosis.
Workhouse
Definition:
(n.) A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.
(n.) A house in which idle and vicious persons are confined to labor.
(n.) A house where the town poor are maintained at public expense, and provided with labor; a poorhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
(2) Mike Ashley running Sports Direct like 'Victorian workhouse' Read more I find the fact that the majority of workers at Shirebrook are agency staff troubling.
(3) Known in the small Welsh town of Llanfyllin as "Lonely Tree", because it stood in splendid isolation, bending to the prevailing west wind on a bare skyline high above the town, the huge, 200-year-old pine could be seen from the school, the church, the police station, the Victorian workhouse and many of the town's pubs.
(4) The absence of workhouses and the small number of street children would please you, and the lack of blatant prostitution in the Haymarket.
(5) "I like Gove's new syllabus: algebra, divinity, rhetoric, sewing for the girls and a school trip to the workhouse.
(6) Then came The Workhouse Donkey , about municipal corruption, at the Chichester festival in 1963.
(7) The website features literary manuscripts, workhouse menus and newspaper articles, along with videos of the actor Simon Callow reading extracts from some of Dickens's best-known works.
(8) Christ in a dole queue, Kris: no job in this rotten workhouse of a fiscal climate?
(9) Clegg's obsession with internship recalls Victorian philanthropy funding apprenticeships for the "deserving" workhouse poor.
(10) Almshouses not only included workhouses but provided comprehensive medical services.
(11) Shareholders are seeking to unseat Hellawell for presiding over a deteriorating financial performance and conditions at Sports Direct’s warehouse at Shirebrook that MPs have likened to a Victorian workhouse .
(12) The buildings are a mixture of old workhouse-type wards and modern purpose-built facilities.
(13) Wright said the incident had undermined the committee’s faith in Ashley’s promises to improve conditions at Sports Direct after the MPs accused him of running the company like a Victorian workhouse .
(14) Anything that looks like a return to the Dickensian workhouse raises hackles.
(15) Subjecting staff to workhouse conditions is not the way to build a successful business.
(16) Recently semi-pedestrianised Walthamstow Village has a 15th-century church and old timbered houses, almshouses nearly as old, and an engaging free museum in the former workhouse.
(17) They could set up camps outside major cities – preferably to the east of London, where the air is stinkier – but close enough for the workers to commute to and from their jobs, or, if they're indolent scroungers, to today's workhouses AKA supermarkets such as Poundland, where they can work for their pittance.
(18) Some plays: 1955 All Fall Down; '57 The Waters of Babylon; '58 Live Like Pigs; '59 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance; '63 The Workhouse Donkey; '64 Armstrong's Last Goodnight; '65 Left-Handed Liberty.
(19) What I got was a workhouse | Daniel Lavelle Read more The tours come at a time when some cities are attempting to effectively outlaw homelessness.
(20) April A groundbreaking documentary series, States of Fear, by the Irish broadcaster RTE, exposes abuse of children in church-run workhouses, reformatories and orphanages since the 1940s.