sick benefit

1. 1.

   money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work

   Synonymssickness benefit

   Broaderbenefit

   United Kingdom

Questions about sick benefit

What does sick benefit mean?

sick benefit means "money paid (by the government) to someone who is too ill to work".

What is another word for sick benefit?

Close synonyms include sickness benefit. 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 sick benefit a common word?

sick benefit 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.