welfare meaning
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WWelfare
- Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens, sometimes referred to as public aid.
- The welfare state expands on this concept to include services such as universal healthcare and unemployment insurance.


- NounPLwelfares
- NU Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- NU (chiefly US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance).
- NU Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- "But since they commenced to turning folks away, off dry-handed, giving them nothing while folks were getting hungry, well then the federal government fixed the welfare.
- Conservatives say that less than 0.5 percent of the population is really living in poverty, arguing that statistics should include the value of charity and welfare.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of welfare in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns
- en welfares
- en welfare rat
- en welfare bum
- en welfare trap
- en welfare state
Source: Wiktionary

