house of correction
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词形变化
houses of correction
复数
houses of correction
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A kind of residential penitentiary facility, built after the passing of the Elizabethan Poor Law (1601), where those who were "unwilling to work", including vagrants and beggars, were set to work.
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2.
A prison.
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