noun ਨਾਂਵ

Workhouse meaning in punjabi

ਵਰਕਹਾਊਸ

  • Definition

    a county jail that holds prisoners for periods up to 18 months

    ਇੱਕ ਕਾਉਂਟੀ ਜੇਲ੍ਹ ਜਿਸ ਵਿੱਚ ਕੈਦੀਆਂ ਨੂੰ 18 ਮਹੀਨਿਆਂ ਤੱਕ ਦੀ ਮਿਆਦ ਲਈ ਰੱਖਿਆ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ

noun ਨਾਂਵ

Workhouse meaning in punjabi

ਵਰਕਹਾਊਸ

  • Definition

    a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

    ਇੱਕ ਗਰੀਬ ਘਰ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਯੋਗ-ਸਰੀਰ ਵਾਲੇ ਗਰੀਬ ਮਜ਼ਦੂਰੀ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ ਮਜਬੂਰ ਹਨ

noun ਨਾਂਵ

Workhouse meaning in punjabi

ਵਰਕਹਾਊਸ

  • Definitions

    1. An institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish, where the able-bodied were required to work.

    ਗਰੀਬ ਬੇਘਰਾਂ ਲਈ ਇੱਕ ਸੰਸਥਾ, ਸਥਾਨਕ ਪੈਰਿਸ਼ ਦੁਆਰਾ ਫੰਡ ਕੀਤੀ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ, ਜਿੱਥੇ ਯੋਗ ਸਰੀਰ ਵਾਲੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਕੰਮ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਲੋੜ ਹੁੰਦੀ ਸੀ।

  • Examples:
    1. "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve."

    2. Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns, great or small, to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born, the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

  • 2. A factory; a place of manufacture.

    ਇੱਕ ਫੈਕਟਰੀ; ਉਤਪਾਦਨ ਦੀ ਜਗ੍ਹਾ.

  • Examples:
    1. He carefully guarded his secret, but it got out, and, when he had his invention almost completed, some men broke open his workhouse and carried it away. It was afterward returned, but his plan had been copied, and from the copy many machines were made.