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National Insurance noun

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Definition

a system of taxation in the UK in which the government collects money from companies and workers and makes payments to people who are too old or ill to work or who have no job

(Definition of National Insurance noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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