0 a place where free soup or other food is given to people with no money or no home
1 a place where free food is given to people with no money or no homes
The tradeoff would be quite tolerable, as any soup kitchen attendant, for example, would readily confirm.
Later a soup kitchen (imaret), a caravanserai and eventually baths (hamam), shops or a hospital were added to such complexes.
Everybody had to go cap in hand to the soup kitchen and to the people who provided voluntary services.
This is the one industrial land in the world where we are meeting our distresses without resort to the bread line or the soup kitchen.
In 1972, with all the marvels of modern science, for poverty we have this computerised version of the soup kitchen—the family income supplement scheme.
Do not let us allow ourselves to be converted into a soup kitchen for an indigent aircraft industry.
After all, we are no longer living in the age of the soup kitchen.
There is no soup kitchen about this matter.