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poorhouse

 noun
     
Related topics: Welfare
poor‧house [countable]
1 the state of not having any money:
If Jimmy keeps spending like this, he's going to end up in the poorhouse.
2PEW a building where very poor people in the past could live and be fed, which was paid for with public money [= workhouse]
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