money given to poor people not living in a workhouse
Also called: outdoor relief
out-relief in American English
(ˈautrɪˌlif)
noun
Brit
public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution
Word origin
[1890–95]This word is first recorded in the period 1890–95. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blanket roll, bootstrap, historicism, masochism, takedown