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n.
  1. Organized efforts to advance human welfare; social work.
  2. Services, such as free school lunches, provided by a government for its disadvantaged citizens. Often used in the plural.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society
  Synonym: welfare work

 
 

 

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Dictionary. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2007, 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.  Read more
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