| 单词 | work farm |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswork farm work farm n. chiefly U.S. a correctional facility (now typically a minimum-security prison for minor offenders) where inmates are required to undertake agricultural work.Cf. farm n.2 7, prison farm n. at prison n. Compounds 1c. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > reformatory prison workhouse?c1475 house of correction1575 bridewell1583 work-jail1619 correction-housec1625 rasp house1651 bettering house1735 bettering mansion1740 penitentiary house1779 penitentiary1807 work farm1835 farm1857 pen1881 prison-industrial complex1965 1835 G. Pinckard Suggestions for restoring Moral Char. Poor 19 If any one should be found begging he should be instantly taken up, and sent to the district work-farm. 1962 K. Kesey One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest (1963) 171 He'd had a six months' sentence at the work farm with two months finished, four more to go. 2007 D. N. Griffin & F. Cullotta Cullotta vi. 109 The goal of any inmate was to get transferred from the main prison to the work farm. < as lemmas |
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