public assistance
| Dictionary: public assistance |
n.
Aid, such as money or food, given to homeless and other financially needy people, the aged, or the inhabitants of a disaster-stricken area; relief.
| Thesaurus: public assistance |
Learn More
 | Electronic Benefits Transfer (in banking) |
| Equal Credit Opportunity Act (business term) |
| Prohibited Basis (in banking) |
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
 |
 | 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 |
 |
| Thesaurus. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. Read more |
ADVERTISEMENT
Mentioned in
- Electronic Benefits Transfer (in banking)
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act (business term)
- Prohibited Basis (in banking)
- Displaced Homemakers Self-Sufficiency Assistance Act (American history)
- relief
- Effects Test (in banking)
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) (in banking)
- Social Security (finance term)
- Malaak Compton-Rock (Actor)
- El Pueblo Se Levanta (1968 Film)
- benefit
- Regulation B (in banking)
- Live at CBGB's [CD & DVD] (2006 Album by Agnostic Front)
- on relief (Idiom)
