[
US
/ˈwɛɫˌfɛɹ/
]
[ UK /wˈɛlfeə/ ]
[ UK /wˈɛlfeə/ ]
NOUN
-
a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent troubles -
something that aids or promotes well-being
for the benefit of all -
governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need
she lives on welfare
How To Use welfare In A Sentence
- A horizontal merger may enable the new entity to set price and output in the same manner as a single-firm monopolist, with the same consequences for consumer welfare.
- The welfare state was not set up to support vast families or single mothers in inter-generational welfare dependency. We deserve a fair society, but it won't be created by a vendetta against the poor
- Accompanying the exclusion from the labour market has been a policy of disenfranchising the underclass from full welfare citizenship.
- Young people from welfare-dependent single-parent families just aren't artful dodgers ready to graduate into serious crime and a moral vacuum.
- Greg Wood is one of only 150 men and women in this country to devote themselves to the welfare of our horses' gnashers.
- Upon completion of the donated public welfare project, the donee shall inform the donor of the construction, use of the funds and checking and acceptance of the construction quality.
- So of course city-dwellers voted for someone who promised more government welfare.
- Reporters asked him to clarify his position on welfare reform.
- The plan laid out in 1996 to change welfare to workfare recognized and provided for the critical role child care would play in transitioning from government dependency to personal responsibility.
- People on welfare are wrongly seen as lazy or dishonest.