social security number

1. 1.

   the number of a particular individual's Social Security account

   Broadernumber

   United States

Questions about social security number

What does social security number mean?

social security number means "the number of a particular individual's Social Security account".

Is social security number a common word?

social security number 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.