Workhouse meaning in urdu

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

ایک کاؤنٹی جیل جس میں قیدیوں کو 18 ماہ تک قید رکھا جاتا ہے۔

a poorhouse where able-bodied poor are compelled to labor

ایک غریب خانہ جہاں قابل جسم غریب مزدوری کرنے پر مجبور ہیں۔

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

غریب بے گھر افراد کے لیے ایک ادارہ، جسے مقامی پارش کے ذریعے مالی اعانت فراہم کی جاتی ہے، جہاں قابل جسم افراد کو کام کرنے کی ضرورت تھی۔

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.

ایک کارخانہ؛ تیاری کی جگہ۔

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.