Look up: almshouse

1. Almshouse
   A residential home, usually for older people or the homeless, providing accommodation for the poor and needy. Almshouses are often charities in their own right, or are owned and run by other charities as part of their operations. There are around 1,750 almshouse charities providing more than 30,000 dwellings across all parts of the country.
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2. almshouse
   House built and endowed for the support of those disabled from work by age or poverty. Almshouses were founded by private charities and privately funded. Formerly (in the Middle Ages), an almshouse...
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3. Almshouse
   Alms'house` noun A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
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4. Almshouse
   • (n.) A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
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5. almshouse
   in the United States, a locally administered public institution for homeless, aged persons without means. Such institutions radically declined in ...
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6. almshouse
   privately funded lodgings for the poor, as opposed to the workhouse, which was publicly funded.
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7. Almshouse
   `Almshouses` are charitable housing provided to enable people (typically elderly people who can no longer work to earn enough to pay rent) to live in a particular community. They are often targeted at the poor of a locality, at those from certain forms of previous employment, or their widows, and ar...
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8. Almshouse
   (disambiguation) An `almshouse` is charitable housing that is provided to enable people to live in a particular community. Specific places named `Almshouse` include: In the `United States` (by state then city): See also:
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