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welfare
noun
    1. The health, comfort, happiness and general wellbeing of a person or group, etc.
      Thesaurus: health, happiness, wellbeing, benefit, profit, prosperity, good fortune.
    2. Social work concerned with helping those in need, eg the very poor.
      Form: welfare work
    3. Financial support given to those in need.
Idiom: on welfare
    (hiefly US)
    Receiving financial help from the government or a charity, etc.
Etymology: 14c: from well1 + fare.



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