SOCIAL SECURITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Social Security mean? 

• SOCIAL SECURITY (noun)
  The noun SOCIAL SECURITY has 1 sense:

1. social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance

  Familiarity information: SOCIAL SECURITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL SECURITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("Social Security" is a kind of...):

social insurance (government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Social Security"):

old-age insurance (insurance paid to the elderly)

survivors insurance (insurance paid to surviving spouses)

 Context examples 

Identified data and samples are labelled with personal identifiers such as name or identification numbers (e.g., social security or national insurance number).

(Identified Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)