PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does public assistance mean? 

• PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (noun)
  The noun PUBLIC ASSISTANCE has 1 sense:

1. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need

  Familiarity information: PUBLIC ASSISTANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUBLIC ASSISTANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

public assistance; social welfare; welfare

Context example:

she lives on welfare

Hypernyms ("public assistance" is a kind of...):

aid; assistance; economic aid; economic assistance; financial aid; financial assistance (gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "public assistance"):

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

relief (aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped)

dole; pogey; pogy (money received from the state)