| 词汇 | poorhouse |
| 释义 | poorhouse noun[ C ] uk /ˈpɔː.haʊs/ us /ˈpʊr.haʊs/ in the past, a building in which extremely poor people could live and be fed, paid for by the public贫民院，济贫院 Compare workhouse Houses & homes A-frame ADU affordable housing almshouse apartment dormitory dosshouse dower house duplex efficiency multifamily Nissen hut non-housing old people's home palace town house townhouse tract house trap house two-up two-down Examples of poorhousepoorhouse Secondly, the founding of a poorhouse meant better possibilities for taking care of the poor. Those elderly and disabled who were in hospitals were to be moved to poorhouses, in order to separate medical care from poor relief. When these groups were moved to the poorhouses, the money could then be spent on needy children. The only help available to the elderly person was from the healthier paupers in the poorhouse. Poorhouse superintendents were some of the first to be employed in municipal poor-relief, and little by little they were also allowed to appoint auxiliaries. In time, rural municipalities also started to employ superintendents for their poorhouses, sometimes a married couple. One was a very old servant who ended up in the poorhouse, and another was a woman who died at the age of 82. She was registered as a domestic servant and ended up in the poorhouse where she spent the last year of her life. For those who lived in poorhouses, both the ' caring ' and the supervisory tasks were performed by other, somewhat younger and healthier, paupers. Furthermore, several parishes did not have any poorhouses. Some women were poor and probably got some outdoor relief, but few entered the poorhouse. The last resort was lodging in small poorhouses, where they could get at least shelter, firewood and some food to cook for themselves. And states relied on these entities to perform vital constitutional responsibilities such as tax collection, as well as regulating the licensure of taverns or the provision of schools or poorhouses. The largest group of old men could be found living near fellow-workers, but more than a quarter spent their last days in institutions like the poorhouse. Borstal institutions as approved schools, and the poorhouse as a home of rest, or words to that effect. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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