housing benefit
noun [U]Definition
› in the UK, money paid by the government to help people who are poor pay for a place to live inSocial security and state benefitsHomelessness
(Definition of housing benefit noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Homelessness, but you might be interested in these topics from the Society topic area:
- Activism & pressure groups
- Class & class-consciousness in general
- Emergency services in general
- Fire service
- Human rights
- Manners & levels of formality
- Named organizations & societies & their members
- Names of groups of people who lived in the past
- Ordinary people
- Organizations - charities
- Organizations - joining & leaving
- Organizations - position & status
- Organizations, Societies & clubs
- Racial issues
- Royalty, aristocracy & titles
- Servants, slaves & underlings
- Social order & disorder
- Social security & state benefits
- Social services & sanitation
- Society - general words
- Unemployment
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- bag lady noun
- be of/have no fixed abode/address idiom
- derelict noun
- doss verb
- dosser noun
- down-and-out adjective
- hobo noun
- homeless adjective
- homeless noun
- hostel noun
- mendicant noun
- on the streets idiom
- rough adverb (OUTSIDE)
- rough verb
- sleep verb
- soup kitchen noun
- street people noun
- traveller noun
- vagabond noun
- waifs and strays idiom
Topic:
Homelessness
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
