settlement house
noun/ˈsetlmənt haʊs/
/ˈsetlmənt haʊs/
(especially North American English)- a public building in an area of a large city that has social problems, that provides social services such as advice and training to the people who live there
- He volunteered to work at an inner-city settlement house.
- the settlement houses in slum areas of London in the 1880s
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