Usually means: Institution for poor's employment, sustenance.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word workhouse:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. workhouse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. workhouse: Merriam-Webster
  3. workhouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. workhouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. workhouse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. workhouse: Vocabulary.com
  7. Workhouse, workhouse: Wordnik
  8. workhouse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. workhouse: Wiktionary
  10. workhouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. workhouse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. workhouse: Dictionary.com
  13. Workhouse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Workhouse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. workhouse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. workhouse: Rhymezone
  17. Workhouse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. workhouse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. workhouse: FreeDictionary.org
  20. workhouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. workhouse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. workhouse: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. workhouse: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Workhouse: Legal dictionary

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  1. workhouse: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (British, historical) An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.
▸ noun:  (US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A place of manufacture; a factory.
▸ verb:  (British, transitive, historical) To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor).

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house, poorhouse, Bastille, union, big house, poor house, house of correction, poor farm, well-house, settlement house, more...

Opposite:
leisure center, recreation center, community center

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prison, jail, penitentiary, more...

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Andover workhouse scandal, more...

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new, old, same, local, former, english, mixed, general, large, common, public

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Similar:
house, poorhouse, Bastille, union, big house, poor house, house of correction, poor farm, well-house, settlement house, more...

Opposite:
leisure center, recreation center, community center

Types:
prison, jail, penitentiary, more...

Phrases:
Andover workhouse scandal, more...

Adjectives:
new, old, same, local, former, english, mixed, general, large, common, public

Colors:
    gray,     brown,     black,     dark green,     navy blue, more...



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