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Перевод: workhouse

[существительное]
работный дом; исправительная тюрьма

Тезаурус:

1. That's why they built the cemetery up close to the workhouse, so they could take them over on a barrow.
2. They were Jonathan's children, sleeping in the workhouse, waiting to be killed by the tragic compulsion of their father.
3. Built as a Victorian workhouse, it had a grey, forbidding look which must have deterred all but the neediest applicants.
4. Admissions Register, Shoreditch workhouse, 1826.
5. SHOREDITCH WORKHOUSE
6. Because in the poorer streets, if you saw - the neighbours in the street knew an old couple, they were too old to work and if you saw an old blue van with a coat of arms on it with an old horse, old grey horse driven by an old grey man, drive up the street, stop outside the door, you knew that the old couple were on the way to the workhouse.
7. i.e. the workhouse ( see NEW POOR LAW).
8. Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin: his mother was now past hope in the workhouse, and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old.
9. Fortunately he had been taken in by his mother's father up to the age of six, living in a cottage by Denbigh castle; but after this grandfather died he spent nine years as a child in St Asaph workhouse.
10. When the staff feel that the workhouse is ready for inspection the visitors arrive.
11. The workhouse, erected with its fine boardroom in 1838 at a cost of 2,000, was built to accommodate 170 inmates.
12. In the state of mind he's in, he'd rather put you in the workhouse than provide one penny towards bringing a child into the world whose father happens to be one of the Feltons.
13. Perhaps Hambury was about to turn into the place Biff had originally described to them back at the workhouse.