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WELFARE WORK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does welfare work mean?
• WELFARE WORK (noun)
The noun WELFARE WORK has 1 sense:
1. an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society
Familiarity information: WELFARE WORK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
social service; welfare work
Hypernyms ("welfare work" is a kind of...):
work (activity directed toward making or doing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "welfare work"):
social work (any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children)
casework (close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment)
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