What does social assistance mean?

social assistance means "benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law".

What is another word for social assistance?

Close synonyms include supplementary benefit, national assistance. 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 social assistance a common word?

social assistance 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.

social assistance — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law
Synonymssupplementary benefit national assistance
Broadersocial insurance
United Kingdom

Questions about social assistance

What does social assistance mean?: social assistance means "benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law".
What is another word for social assistance?: Close synonyms include supplementary benefit, national assistance. 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.

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