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WELFARE STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("welfare state" is a kind of...):
state (the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state)
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