workhouse

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An institution for homeless poor people funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work. UK,historical
    — Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, […] the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.
  2. A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour. US
  3. A place of manufacture; a factory. archaic
    — He carefully guarded his secret, but it got out, and, when he had his invention almost completed, some men broke open his workhouse and carried it away. It was afterward returned, but his plan had been copied, and from the copy many machines were made.
动词 v.
  1. To place (a person) in the workhouse (institution for the poor). UK,historical,transitive

词形变化

workhouses plural work house alternative workhouses present,singular,third-person workhousing participle,present workhoused participle,past workhoused past work house alternative

词汇关系

相关词
worker workforce workhome

词源

词源 1
From Middle English werkhous, from Old English weorchūs (“workshop, place of manufacture”), from Proto-Germanic *werkahūsą, equivalent to work + house.
词源 2
From Middle English werkhous, from Old English weorchūs (“workshop, place of manufacture”), from Proto-Germanic *werkahūsą, equivalent to work + house.
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