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Poor Law

Definition: Poor Law

Poor Law

Noun

1. A law providing support for the poor.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Crosswords: Poor Law

English words defined with "poor law": To do reverence. (references)
Specialty definitions using "poor law": Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Act of 1996FORMAYves. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Poor Law

DomainTitle

Books

  • Medical Charities, Medical Politics: The Irish Dispensary System and the Poor Law, 1836-1872 (Royal Historical Society Studies in History. New series (reference)

  • Social administration in Lancashire, 1830-1860: poor Law, public health and police (reference)

  • From Poor Law to Welfare State: A History of Social Welfare in America (reference)

  • Workhouse Children: Infant and Child Paupers Under the Worcestershire Poor Law 1780-1871 (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Poor Law

Language Translations for "poor law"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Ligj I Ndihmës Për Të Varfërit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مساعدات عامة. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Закон За Бедните. (various references)

   

Czech

  

Chudinský Zákon. (various references)

   

French

  

assistance publique. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Szegénytörvény. (various references)

   

Manx

  

leigh ny moght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oorpay awlay

   

Russian 

  

Закон О Бедных. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zakon o sirotinji. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Fattigvårdslag. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

Fakirleri Koruma Yasası, Fakirlere Yardım Yasası. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Poor Law

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-l-o-o-p-r-w"

-2 letters: orlop, parol, polar, prowl.

-3 letters: alow, awol, loop, opal, oral, pawl, plow, polo, pool, poor, prao, proa, prow, warp, wool, wrap.

-4 letters: alp, awl, lap, lar, law, loo, lop, low, oar, ora, owl, pal, par, paw, pol, pow, pro, rap, raw, row, wap, war, woo, wop.

-5 letters: al, ar, aw, la, lo, op, or.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Poor Law


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 6F 72      4C 61 77

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01101111 01110010 00100000 01001100 01100001 01110111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#111 &#114 &#32 &#76 &#97 &#119

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 006F 0072      004C 0061 0077

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

508181842466789

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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