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Definition of Inmates
1. inmate [n] - See also: inmate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inmates
Literary usage of Inmates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"38 houses, with 486 inmates. Collectively their funds at this time amounted to
a capital of ... with 63 inmates; 7 of Reformed Franciscans, with 72 inmates; ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"... for Prisoners," and more particularly to discuss the question "Can Prisons Be
Made Self-supporting and inmates Be Paid Adequate Wages at the Same Time ? ..."
3. Report of the Committee on Inquiry Into the Departments of Health, Charities by New York (N.Y.). Board of estimate and apportionment. Committee on inquiry into the Departments of health, charities, and Bellevue and allied hospitals, George McAneny, Henry Collier Wright (1913)
"After these dependents arrive in the institutions as inmates they are assigned
to the hospital wards, the wards for the infirm and crippled, ..."
4. The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University (1912)
"Little Effort to Reform inmates.—The inmates are taught no trade except in the
shoe factory; and as this training prepares them only for factory work, ..."
5. The Secularization of American Education: As Shown by State Legislation by Samuel Windsor Brown (1912)
"But in the case of orphans and the inmates of industrial schools, reform schools,
... The problem is further intensified by the fact that the inmates of the ..."
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