poorhouse / ˈpʊərˌhaʊs /

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poorhouse 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural poor·hous·es [poor-hou-ziz]. /ˈpʊərˌhaʊ zɪz/.

  1. an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.

更多poorhouse例句

  1. The closure of poorhouses shifted that burden onto hospitals.
  2. For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside.
  3. I don't much like to say the poorhouse, where I was took after my folks died, and I hate to say Mrs. Stott's truck-farm.
  4. When we arrived at Posen we took up our quarters in the Jewish poorhouse, the master of which was a poor jobbing tailor.
  5. But it would mean all the difference between penury and dread of the poorhouse on the one hand and safety on the other to David.
  6. In a few weeks, they got on so well that they began to take their relations and friends out of that terrible poorhouse.