welfare worker

1. 1.

   someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)

   Synonymssocial workercaseworker

   Broaderpublic servant

   Narroweralmoner

Questions about welfare worker

What does welfare worker mean?

welfare worker means "someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged)".

What is another word for welfare worker?

Close synonyms include social worker, caseworker. 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 welfare worker a common word?

welfare worker 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.