work farm

noun

: a farm on which persons guilty of minor law violations are confined

Examples of work farm in a Sentence

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The relative emailed one of the reporters, who found that Moran was also among hundreds of unclaimed bodies buried at the county jail’s work farm. Jon Schuppe, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024 Poverty Hollow was a debtors’ work farm and is now, because time has a sense of humor, the site of some of the town’s most McMansion-y developments. Clare Beams, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1835, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of work farm was in 1835

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“Work farm.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/work%20farm. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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