English to Swedish Meaning of workhouse - fattighus

Workhouse :
fattighus
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Definitions of workhouse in English
Noun(1) a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor(2) a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months
Examples of workhouse in English
(1) There were 400 there, including 46 inmates at the workhouse .(2) Unlike Boston, which had the financial resources to build more than one public institution for the poor, many towns in New England only built one institution, either a workhouse or an almshouse.(3) No matter how we felt about the workhouse the inmates who had been there quite awhile, like myself, had learnt not to even mention running away.(4) The overarching vision of a totally deterrent New Poor Law where relief would only be administered in the workhouse clashed with local parish budgets and the reality of the family wage economy.(5) But at the time the only alleviation remained the institution of workhouses , although philanthropists were constructing almshouses, cheap housing for the poor.(6) Individual supervisors of public works or of workhouses might be named, but there was no global critique of political institutions.(7) The grants are being offered for work on everything from thatched cottages to stately homes and castles, large and small country houses, town houses, churches, workhouses and public buildings, including an old post office.(8) Overnight accommodation varied, from the the casual wards of local workhouses to more friendly lodgings and municipally-arranged feasts.
Related Phrases of workhouse
(1) workhouse ::
fattighus
(2) work ::
arbete
(3) house ::
hus
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