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/ˈbɛvɝɪdʒ/
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NOUN
- British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963)
How To Use Beveridge In A Sentence
- This recorded a dramatic decline in the total number of poor, largely due to the implementation of the Beveridge Report in 1948.
- Their outlook harmonized with the new orthodoxies of the planners, many of them Liberal theoreticians such as Keynes or Beveridge, or simply apolitical technocrats.
- Mystifying because in a town with a clear pride in its country and its military past he hates the Royal family, drivels on about fluffy bunnies and their rights detests hunters and is a member of the beverage (ok Beveridge), group a far lefty tax and spend appeasing fidgety self righteous nuisance cabal. The Hunters Hunted
- Beveridge's legacy endures because the welfare state works tolerably well and is immensely popular.
- Tract Number 25 - Bishop Beveridge on the great Necessity and Advantage of Public Prayer.
- Beveridge is usually thought of as the architect of the British National Health Service.
- Sir William Beveridge, a member of Churchill's wartime government he actually worked for Labour Minister Ernest Bevin, who wanted to get rid of him because he thought he was conceited, published a long, turgid report with revolutionary implications: "Social Insurance and Allied Services. Robert Teitelman: Brazil, America and the Realities of Private Equity
- Beveridge made proposals for a separation benefit, to be paid only in cases of formal separation not caused by the wife.
- Beveridge believed that unemployment could be cured by state intervention.
- Beveridge (ad Pandect.proleg. p. 2) remarks, that the emperors never made new laws in ecclesiastical matters; and Giannone observes, in a very different spirit, that they gave a legal sanction to the canons of councils. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2