Homework vs Workhouse - What's the difference?
homework | workhouse |
Work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher.
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, title= Preliminary or preparatory work, such as research.
(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.
As nouns the difference between homework and workhouse
is that homework is work that is done at home, especially school exercises set by a teacher while workhouse is (label) formerly, an institution for the poor homeless, funded by the local parish where the able-bodied were required to work (w).homework
English
(wikipedia homework)Noun
(-)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.