WELFARE WORKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welfare worker mean? 

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

1. someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELFARE WORKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

caseworker; social worker; welfare worker

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

public servant (someone who holds a government position (either by election or appointment))

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

almoner; medical social worker (an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients)