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NATIONAL INSURANCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does national insurance mean?
• NATIONAL INSURANCE (noun)
The noun NATIONAL INSURANCE has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: NATIONAL INSURANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("national insurance" is a kind of...):
social insurance (government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue)
Context examples
Identified data and samples are labelled with personal identifiers such as name or identification numbers (e.g., social security or national insurance number).
(Identified Genomic Data and Samples, NCI Thesaurus)
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