social work

1. 1.

   any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children

   Broaderwelfare work

Questions about social work

What does social work mean?

social work means "any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children".

Is social work a common word?

social work 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.