charity case

1. 1.

   a case for a welfare worker

   Synonymswelfare case

   Broadercase

Questions about charity case

What does charity case mean?

charity case means "a case for a welfare worker".

What is another word for charity case?

Close synonyms include welfare case. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is charity case a common word?

charity case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.