The most popular online dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English
welfare
noun [U] (HELP) /ˈwel.feər/
/-fer/ Definition
C2 help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have enough money: This national fund pays for welfare benefits such as unemployment and sickness pay.UK After her month's sick leave, she was summoned to see the company's welfare officer.Social security and state benefits on welfare US › receiving financial help from the state because you are poor or have not been employed for a long timeUnemployment
(Definition of welfare noun (HELP) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Focus on the pronunciation of welfare
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Social security & state benefits, 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
- Homelessness
- 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 services & sanitation
- Society - general words
- Unemployment
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “welfare”
SMART Thesaurus: Social security & state benefits
Synonyms and related words:
- AFDC
- be on relief idiom
- benefit noun (MONEY FROM GOVERNMENT)
- child benefit noun
- claim verb (DEMAND)
- claimant noun
- dole noun
- family allowance noun
- family credit noun
- giro noun
- housing benefit noun
- income support noun
- means-testing noun
- sickness benefit noun
- sign off phrasal verb (FINANCIAL SUPPORT)
- social security noun
- unemployment benefit noun
- unemployment noun
- welfare state noun
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.
