sickness benefit

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssick benefit

   Broaderbenefit

   United Kingdom

Questions about sickness benefit

What does sickness benefit mean?

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

What is another word for sickness benefit?

Close synonyms include sick 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 sickness benefit a common word?

sickness 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.