welfare
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
welfare/ˈwelfeə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 the health, happiness, and fortunes of a person or group.
- 2 action or procedure designed to promote the basic physical and material well-being of people in need.
■ chiefly N. Amer. financial support given for this purpose.
'welfare' also found in these Oxford entries:
care
- case
- circumstance
- commonweal
- HEW
- humanitarian
- National Assistance
- philanthropist
- philanthropy
- pogey
- salute
- self-seeking
- service club
- social service
- tough love
- welfare state
- welfarism
- wish
- workfare
