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SOCIAL ASSISTANCE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does social assistance mean?

• SOCIAL ASSISTANCE (noun)
The noun SOCIAL ASSISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law

Familiarity information: SOCIAL ASSISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SOCIAL ASSISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

national assistance; social assistance; supplementary benefit

Hypernyms ("social assistance" is a kind of...):

social insurance (government provision for unemployed or injured or aged; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue)

Domain region:

Britain; GB; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland)

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