social welfare

What does social welfare mean?

social welfare means "governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need".

What is another word for social welfare?

Close synonyms include welfare, public 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 welfare a common word?

social welfare 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for social welfare come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.