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Meaning of house of correction | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  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.
    UK, historical
  2. A prison.
    US

Equivalents

Dansk tugthus
Bahasa Indonesia rumah tutupan
Nederlands correctie huis van correctie

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

House of Delegates house of detention house of ease house of easement House of God house of horrors

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