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Housework vs Workhouse - What's the difference?

housework | workhouse |

As nouns the difference between housework and workhouse

is that housework is domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking while workhouse is (label) formerly, an institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work (w).

housework

English

Noun

  • Domestic household chores such as cleaning and cooking.

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    workhouse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) Formerly, an institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work. (w)
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  • *:"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ΒΆ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve."
  • (label) A prison in which the sentence includes manual labour.

    • Synonyms

    * poorhouse

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