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WELFARE WORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welfare work mean? 

WELFARE WORK (noun)
  The noun WELFARE WORK has 1 sense:

1. an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in societyplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WELFARE WORK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

social service; welfare work

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

work (activity directed toward making or doing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "welfare work"):

social work (any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children)

casework (close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment)


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