national insurance

1. 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

   Broadersocial insurance

Questions about national insurance

What does national insurance mean?

national insurance means "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".

Is national insurance a common word?

national insurance 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.