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workhouse <a workhouse; workhouses> N

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Before its opening, convicted criminals were put in county jails or a workhouse where they were employed in public projects such as road building.
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Two men were employed assisted by the workhouse inmates.
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I looked up to the window and saw outside all the workhouse prisoners, watching me.
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For the asylum he designed several new wings and a chapel, followed by extensions to the union workhouse.
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Staying in the workhouse she set to work upon the little poems by which she is known.
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Its use in hospitals was borrowed from workhouses.
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At this meeting it was decided to build a workhouse in the town.
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The charity's aims later expanded again to include prisoners and those in workhouses, police officers, railway workers, post office employees and others.
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It was thought that if conditions in the workhouse were really bad then the poor would be deterred from seeking relief.
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He found conditions in the workhouse a nightmare of cruelty, infinitely worse than the most inhuman aspects of the penitentiary.
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