house+of+correction

  • 21house of detention — house of detention: a place where prisoners and occasionally witnesses are detained pending a trial compare house of correction, jail, lockup, penitentiary, prison …

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  • 22house — n. building home 1) to build, put up a house 2) to redecorate, refurbish, remodel, renovate a house 3) to demolish, raze, tear down a house 4) to rent a house from smb. 5) to let (BE), rent out (AE) a house to smb. 6) a dilapidated, ramshackle… …

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  • 23house — Structure that serves as living quarters for one or more persons or families. See also curtilage domicile home residence. A legislative assembly, or (where the bicameral system obtains) one of the two branches of the legislature; as the house of… …

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  • 24house — Structure that serves as living quarters for one or more persons or families. See also curtilage domicile home residence. A legislative assembly, or (where the bicameral system obtains) one of the two branches of the legislature; as the house of… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 25correction — n. 1 a the act or process of correcting. b an instance of this. 2 a thing substituted for what is wrong. 3 archaic punishment (house of correction). Derivatives: correctional adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L correctio onis (as CORRECT) …

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  • 26house of reformation — Same as house of correction …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 27house of refuge — Essentially the same as house of correction …

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  • 28Correction (novel) — Correction   Author(s) Thomas Bernhard Original title …

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  • 29Under correction — Correction Cor*rec tion (k?r r?k sh?n), n. [L. correctio: cf. F. correction.] 1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. [1913 Webster] The due… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 30House Un-American Activities Committee — HUAC hearing The House Committee on Un American Activities (HCUA) or House Un American Activities Committee (HUAC)[1] (1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the… …

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