WELFARE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welfare state mean? 

• WELFARE STATE (noun)
  The noun WELFARE STATE has 1 sense:

1. a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

  Familiarity information: WELFARE STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELFARE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("welfare state" is a kind of...):

state (the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state)