SOCIAL INSURANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does social insurance mean? 

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

1. government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOCIAL INSURANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

public assistance; social welfare; welfare (governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social insurance"):

national insurance (social insurance program in Britain; based on contributions from employers and employees; provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services)

national assistance; social assistance; supplementary benefit (benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law)

Social Security (social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance)

unemployment compensation (payment by a United States agency to unemployed people)

disability insurance (social insurance for the disabled)

health care (social insurance for the ill and injured)