Noun:

વર્કશોપ, ફેક્ટરી,

workhouses's Usage Examples:

The Irish Workhouse Centre, opened in the old Portumna Workhouse during summer 2011, is the only centre telling the history of workhouses in Ireland.

At many poorhouses/workhouses, men and women were split up with no communication between them.

The costs of this indoor relief was high especially when workhouses.

Through the mid-19th century, debtors" prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses) were a common way to deal.

It stated that conditions in workhouses had to be worse than conditions available outside so that there was a.

assist with drawings, and then as site architect on four Northamptonshire workhouses.

It is a criticism of the harsh conditions in English and Welsh workhouses under the 1834 Poor Law.

However, these workhouses were intended to help only the elderly, sick and orphaned.

Some Poor Law authorities hoped to run workhouses at a profit by utilising the free labour of their inmates.

workhouses were built in England and Wales as a direct result of Knatchull"s Act.

The Act was intended to curb the cost of poor relief and address abuses of the old system, prevalent in southern agricultural counties, by enabling a new system to be brought in under which relief would only be given in workhouses, and conditions in workhouses would be such as to deter any but the truly destitute from applying for relief.

highly centralised system which encouraged the large-scale development of workhouses by poor law unions.

Synonyms:

pokey, jail, gaol, jailhouse, clink, slammer, poky,

Antonyms:

free, fast, cosmopolitan,