social security

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   social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance

   Broadersocial insurance

   Narrowerold-age insurancesurvivors insurance

Questions about social security

What does social security mean?

social security means "social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance".

Is social security a common word?

social security 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.