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Workshop vs Workhouse - What's the difference?

workshop | workhouse |

As nouns the difference between workshop and workhouse

is that workshop is a room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work while workhouse is formerly, an institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work. Wp

As a verb workshop

is to help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.

workshop

English

Noun

  • A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
  • A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
  • An academic conference.

    • Derived terms

    * idle hands are the devil's workshop * Santa's workshop

    Verb

  • To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
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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

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "workhouse")

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