soup kitchen
noun
: an establishment dispensing minimum dietary essentials (such as soup and bread) to the needy
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Would Harvard be able to, over time, change its activities to be a (c)(3) soup kitchen?
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Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Wright has been involved with Brother Benno’s since Harold and Kay Kutler opened it as a soup kitchen in 1983 in a cottage on Minnesota Avenue in Oceanside.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
When the production of a play upstairs meant leftover food, a crew member brought it down to the soup kitchen.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 July 2025
Beneficiaries have included many Lake County recipients including a Waukegan soup kitchen and the St. Joseph Food Pantry at 112 N. Milwaukee Ave.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
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Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Wright has been involved with Brother Benno’s since Harold and Kay Kutler opened it as a soup kitchen in 1983 in a cottage on Minnesota Avenue in Oceanside.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
When the production of a play upstairs meant leftover food, a crew member brought it down to the soup kitchen.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 23 July 2025
Beneficiaries have included many Lake County recipients including a Waukegan soup kitchen and the St. Joseph Food Pantry at 112 N. Milwaukee Ave.
—Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 14 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for soup kitchen
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“Soup kitchen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20kitchen. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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