English Dictionary

workhouse

名詞

イギリス英語 歴史的 アメリカ英語 古語

(Britain, historical) An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work. / (US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.

日本語の意味

英国における歴史的施設で、貧困や住居を失った人々のために地元の教区などが資金提供し、働ける者に労働を強制する収容所 / 米国において、刑罰の一環として労働を課される刑務所

After his factory closed and his savings ran out, he had no option but to live in the local workhouse, performing menial labor alongside other destitute residents.

工場が閉鎖されて貯えが尽きると、彼は地元の救貧院に住むほかなく、他の困窮した入居者とともに雑用の労働をさせられた。

意味（1）

(Britain, historical) An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.

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.

意味（2）

(US) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.

意味（3）

(archaic) A factory; a place of manufacture.

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.

workhouses （ plural ）