poorhouse

n.

贫民院；

复数：poorhouses

1. If we keep spending money like this,we'll end up in the poorhouse.
   如果我们一直像这样花钱，我们最终会进救济院的。

Poorhouse
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
Poorhouse to Warehouse: Institutional Long-Term Care in the United States
Poorhouse Justice: Underfunded Indigent Defense Services and Arbitrary Death Sentences
In the shadow of the poorhouse : a social history of welfare in America
Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States by Fred R. Harris; Lynn A. Curtis
Stature in an early mid-19th century poorhouse population: Highland Park, Rochester, New York
From poorhouse overseer to production manager: one hundred years of old-age care in Sweden reflected in the development ...
michael b. katz. In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America. New York: Basic. 1986. Pp. xiv, 338. $22.95
Book Reviews/Comptes Rendus: Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse: The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois by David L. Lig...