transcription, транскрипция: [ wɜ:(r)khaʊs ]
( workhouses)
In Britain, in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, a workhouse was a place where very poor people could live and do unpleasant jobs in return for food. People use the workhouse to refer to these places in general.
...a struggling Shropshire family which lived in fear of the workhouse.
= poorhouse
N-COUNT