poorhouse

/poor-hous/US // ˈpʊərˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈpʊəˌhaʊs, ˈpɔː-) //

贫民院,贫民窟,贫民房,贫困家庭

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural poor·hous·es [poor-hou-ziz]. /ˈpʊərˌhaʊ zɪz/.
- : an institution in which paupers were maintained at public expense.

The closure of poorhouses shifted that burden onto hospitals.
For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside.
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.
When we arrived at Posen we took up our quarters in the Jewish poorhouse, the master of which was a poor jobbing tailor.
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.
In a few weeks, they got on so well that they began to take their relations and friends out of that terrible poorhouse.