welfarewel‧fare /ˈwelfeə $ -fer/ ●●○ W2 AWL noun [uncountable] 
Our only concern is the children’s welfare.2help that is provided for people who have personal or social problemswelfare benefits/services/programmes etc the provision of education and welfare services The company’s welfare officer deals with employees’ personal problems.3American English money that is paid by the government in the US to people who are very poor or unemployed SYN benefit British Englishon welfare Most of the people in this neighborhood are on welfare.
WORD ORIGINwelfare
Origin:
1300-1400 well fare ‘to fare well’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Annabelle stopped getting welfare benefits when her husband landed a minimum-wage job.
- Getting people off welfare and into paying jobs is a major national priority.
- Raising the minimum wage might make it more difficult for people on welfare to get a job.
- The amount of money that the government spends on welfare has halved in the past decade.
- We are very concerned about the welfare of U.S. citizens abroad.
- As in other cases, the deadweight welfare loss depends on the price elasticity of demand.
- Concern for the welfare of the workers, or labour supply, changed.
- In human terms, however, welfare reform is definitely risky.
- Make another subtraction for everything else other than spending on the elderly that has to be done in the social welfare system.
- Since 1985, she has quit two full-time jobs because her net pay was less than her welfare check.
- The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.
Longman Language Activatormoney that you receive regularly
all the money that someone receives regularly, for example from their job, from their savings or from the government: · I'd love to know what his income is. He has so many new clothes and such an expensive car.· We knew we'd need another source of income if we were planning to have a big family.· Couples with joint incomes over $50,000 are the fastest growing segment of the housing market.income of $200/£400 etc: · The whole family survives on the mother's monthly income of less than £500.low income: · If you are on a low income, you may be entitled to free dental treatment.regular income: · She receives a regular income from the investments she made twenty years ago.monthly/annual/weekly/yearly income: · The average annual income in Hong Kong is now much higher than it was in 1994.
also retirement plan American an amount of money that old people receive regularly from the government, their former employer, or from an insurance company, because they have paid in money to the government etc over many years: · I don't know how you manage on your pension, Lil, I really don't.· He gets a pretty good pension from his old firm.· The company has a very generous retirement plan.state pension (=a pension from the government): · If a man retires at 58, he's actually got seven years to go before he draws his state pension.old-age pension British (=a pension that people receive from the government when they reach a particular age): · The government is considering linking the old-age pension to earnings.disability/invalidity pension British (=a pension given to someone who cannot work because they are ill or injured): · He retired from the force with a disability pension.· Martin still hasn't got his invalidity pension sorted out. pension planalso pension scheme British (=an arrangement to pay people a pension): · Is there a pension scheme where you work?draw a pension (=receive a pension, especially one from the government): · How long have you been drawing a pension?live on a pension (=when your pension is the only money you receive): · Living on a pension isn't easy you know. You really have to scrimp and save.
in the UK, money that the government gives to people who are ill, old, or unemployed. In the US, money from a government programme that workers pay into, which provides them with money when they are old or unable to work, or the programme itself: · Once I've paid for my rent and food, most of my Social Security is used up.· an increase in spending on Social Security and MedicareSocial Security benefits/payments: · The government faces strong opposition to its proposals to cut Social Security payments.be/live on Social Security: · How'd you find it, living on Social Security?Social Security number: · Can you write your Social Security number in the box please?
usually benefits American money that people receive from the government if they have no job, do not earn a lot, or are sick: · There are several benefits you can claim if you are unemployed.· You should find out about any benefits you're entitled to.housing benefit (=regular payments towards your rent): · Surely she'll be eligible for housing benefit?unemployment benefit (=regular payments to people who do not have a job): · If you were fired from your previous job, you may not be able to claim unemployment benefit.child benefit British (=regular payments made to mothers of children under 16): · Child benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years.be/live on benefit British: · Two-thirds of lone parents are on benefit.
American the money that is paid by the government to people without jobs: · The amount of money that the government spends on welfare has halved in the past decade.· Getting people off welfare and into paying jobs is a major national priority.welfare benefits/payments: · Annabelle stopped getting welfare benefits when her husband landed a minimum-wage job.be/live on welfare (=to be receiving money from the government): · Raising the minimum wage might make it more difficult for people on welfare to get a job.
money that someone receives regularly for a special reason, and that they do not earn by working: · Some students have an allowance from their parents.clothing allowance (=money for buying clothes): · Does your mom give you a clothing allowance?monthly/weekly/yearly allowance: · In exchange for looking after the children, Annie has all her meals paid for and receives a small monthly allowance.· I think my yearly allowance is about three hundred, you know, so I'm rapidly running out.
British /allowance American a small amount of money that children receive from their parents every week: · What do you spend your allowance on, Jimmy?· You'll pay for that vase out of your pocket money.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY the provision of education and welfare servicesCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The industry has a duty to safeguard consumers.
1someone’s welfare is their health and happiness: the provision of education and welfare services (=money that a government spends on providing health services, welfare, or education)· There has been a steady rise in welfare expenditure.
American English (=a list of people without jobs who claim money from the state) Thompson said he had cut welfare rolls by 39%.
Thompson said he had cut welfare rolls by 39%. The industry has a duty to safeguard consumers. (=spending on defence etc)· Further cuts in defence spending are being considered.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Among others pledging to fight corporate welfare were consumer activist Ralph Nader, Sens.· But this raises the politically touchy issue of corporate welfare.· And the administration tactfully distanced itself from Reich when he said any welfare reform ought to include corporate welfare as well.
· The reason for this is that economic welfare stems from the activity of consumption.· We highlighted the problems of using national income as an indicator of economic welfare.· Thus, economic welfare has unambiguously been reduced.· How can a market system-which operates globally as well as nationally-be governed to maximise economic and social welfare?· In terms of economic welfare, as in terms of economic incentives, the picture is again unclear.· What other data would be useful in determining the change in economic welfare? 3.· The focus on households with children reflects recent trends in economic welfare in Britain.· In Chapter 8, where welfare economics was introduced, we stated a very important condition for an increase in economic welfare.
· Another large area of spending was that of Federal welfare schemes.· Similarly, drug-free status must be a basic of eligibility for federal welfare benefits.· Counties are also bracing for the brunt of federal welfare reform, expected to mark a significant loss of federal aid dollars.· Welfare split A look at the differences between the new federal welfare law and evolving proposals from Republican Gov.
· One aspect of disorganized capitalism is pressure against general welfare expenditures for those not directly engaged in productive work.· The Constitution requires that the federal government promote the general welfare of its people.· The deaf and dumb are profoundly grateful for this provision made on their behalf for their general welfare.· We can readily conclude that the provision is designed to serve the general welfare.· What this means is that overall economic policy should be dictated by utilitarian considerations, aiming to improve the general welfare.· The means it chose to address this dangerous situation were reasonably calculated to advance the general welfare.· They decided the matter apparently on general welfare grounds and did not apply the section 25 criteria.· It belongs to anyone from any country who is legitimately allowed to live here and who contributes to the general social welfare.
· We can only maintain a healthy scepticism of any claims to place public welfare above private interest.· For example, a training program for public welfare workers could be the object of a special grant.· But is the hallmark of social policy expenditure its contribution to public welfare, and what does this really mean?· Consider public housing and welfare, which between them cost us roughly $ 30 billion per year.· More than one in five households were eligible for some form of public welfare benefits.
· The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare, defence and overseas development assistance.· Critics worry that compassionate conservatism involves subcontracting social welfare to nutty evangelicals.· New policies on developing the backward western provinces and improving health, education and social welfare are stressed.· Spending cuts would especially affect public administration and, within the social welfare budget, the level of payments on sickness benefit.· However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.· Cuts in social welfare and education included reduced subsidies for children's day-care centres.· Not in urban development, not in city slum clearance, not in social welfare.
NOUN· Each year animal welfare groups document instances of cruelty, but prosecutions have been rare.· Look out for our forthcoming profile of Sir Richard Body, and articles on farm animal welfare.· But animal welfare officers were pleased with the result.· Material also available on animal welfare, patterns of food consumption and grassland utilisation.· Worries about pollution levels from intensive indoor units and growing concern about animal welfare are also motivating factors.· There will also be an increase in humanitarian concerns about animal welfare.· We stand for animal welfare, for animal protection, for compassion, for human responsibility to the other animals.· I began by suggesting that, perhaps in practical terms, animal welfare and the protection of the environment have little in common.
· Without welfare benefits, many may become homeless, others will go hungry.· In unitary states, governments must evaluate the trade-off between higher taxes and higher welfare benefits.· If Congress ends welfare benefits, the state then would have to pick up the costs.· Mr. Ashton How many welfare benefits have been cut and how many freezes have been imposed to pay for taxation cuts?· Similarly, drug-free status must be a basic of eligibility for federal welfare benefits.· In addition, government policies on taxation and welfare benefits will have a significant influence.· The terminal workers were fired, and they lost their health and welfare benefits.
· But the Republican governors recoiled from the prospect of reopening the welfare bill for anything.· The current welfare bill includes money for day care.· The president kept the Republicans from including Medicaid in the welfare bill.· But the welfare bill has split the Democratic Party on the eve of its national convention in Chicago.· The goal of the welfare bill is to devolve power and responsibilty to the states.
· But also the whole agenda of maternity and child welfare and its subsequent implementation was promoted by the guild.· This is a hot line established by state child welfare agencies for the reporting of child abuse.· Renewed commitment to child welfare had the initial effect of inducing parents to desert their offspring at an even faster rate.· She also has little experience in child welfare.· He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.· But in the world of child welfare this empowerment in fact carries almost no power.· She opened one of the first child welfare clinics in the country, and ran a working men's club.· Unfortunately, our status quo is based on our belief that child welfare is the province of parents, not society.
· The survey is perhaps also significant for the total absence of any importance being placed on welfare law work.· A series of welfare laws followed, promising a gradual transformation of Britain.· The provision went on the books last year as part of an overhaul of state welfare law.· Welfare split A look at the differences between the new federal welfare law and evolving proposals from Republican Gov.· Clay Shaw, R-Fla., who chairs the subcommittee that will change the 1996 welfare law.
· Where a public law application is consolidated with private law proceedings, however, a court welfare officer may already be involved.· They are boycotting new assessment procedures, claiming social welfare officers were not being recognised for increased workloads.· If you would like to apply for help, or find out who your local representative is, contact your welfare officer.· Last year, a welfare officer warned the boy's grandparents his mental health was in danger.· But animal welfare officers were pleased with the result.· All the girls have social workers, or probation officers, or welfare officers.· Full time welfare officers represent individuals at pension tribunals, and are able to offer professional advice on legal matters and housing.· Student welfare officers became concerned about the intensity of Life at oxford University, and in todays report they urge immediate action.
· State officials say the changes, which were included in the sweeping welfare overhaul law approved by the Legislature and Gov.· From the left, he is accused of political cowardice in signing the Republican welfare overhaul with its roiling undercurrents of race.· Maxine Waters, whose Los Angeles district would be hit hard by the welfare overhaul.· Luntz recommends that Dole use welfare overhaul as a unifying issue, because it appeals to the Buchanan Brigades without offending moderates.· Jackson, who opposes the welfare overhaul, says Clinton is far preferable to Dole.· Public opinion polls show a majority of respondents support a welfare overhaul.
· This fuelled Opposition fears that the committee was set up to rubber stamp massive cuts in welfare payments.· The liberal looks at welfare payments and sees them as pitifully low.· Tax benefits are consumer led, unlike traditional welfare payments, which are subject to the Government's control of public expenditure.· In any event, the welfare payment, from the point of view of the poor, is anything but negligibly small.· In February 1992 the government had introduced minimal safety-net welfare payments, for which some 7,400,000 people were estimated to be eligible.· What shows up in the statistics as fringe benefits is really a private social welfare payment from the young to the old.· Rather than compromise on welfare payments, they were prepared to resign and leave social butchery to the Tories.· It would be absurd and self-defeating to ask poor families to pay the taxes needed to finance their welfare payments!
· In contrast to all other social welfare policies, public assistance programmes for the poor are the most controversial.· Along with several other recommendations, the welfare policies must be voted on by all the governors in attendance.· Nevertheless, the move back towards a more generous welfare policy for older people was hesitatingly slow.· For the study of social need and welfare policy this is clearly right; yet it unwittingly helps to reinforce the stereotypes.· The pressures of demand management and legitimacy therefore produced social democratic welfare policies at home.· Other social welfare policies cause problems for women.· Current welfare policies are increasingly seeking to build upon responsibilities between family members.
· There, in one county, state authorities are now studying proposals from companies about how they would run the welfare program.· Mormon religious leaders generally became conservative Republicans who spoke out against trade unionism and welfare programs.· The serious cutting will occur in the social welfare programs, which are pretty much all that remain.· Others may have dropped out of the welfare programs.· The Republicans are not for the most part protectors of these welfare programs.· When Congress creates welfare programs, it must prescribe arbitrary limits for eligibility.· Secondly, a federal law enacted last year requires California to create a radically new welfare program.
· Underlying this hostility was a profound belief in the ethical and moral superiority of collective welfare provision.· The welfare provisions, meanwhile, require states to put recipients to work and penalize those that fail to do so.· The government believes that the informal, voluntary and commercial sectors should substitute for the state in welfare provision.· However, he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision.· Parliament will soon be asked to approve measures to reform education, health, the criminal justice system and welfare provision.· Claimants for social welfare provisions have not always been in a good position so far as procedural protection is concerned.· Wider coverage accounts for well over half of the increase in the proportion of output devoted to welfare provision during the 1960s.
· Their plan would also soften the requirement that welfare recipients work.· For business, there were offers of tax breaks for hiring welfare recipients.· We see welfare recipients as our friends and allies.· More than $ 300 million would be set aside for new tax credits for businesses who hire welfare recipients.· Nevertheless, I sense a growing coldness toward homeless persons, as well as toward welfare recipients in general.· Anyway, I see where 35, 000 welfare recipients have been put into workfare jobs in New York City.· For a brief time she was a welfare recipient.· Some welfare recipients -- Those with job skills could move rapidly into training, child care and job programs.
· But the most powerful aspect of Englerization is welfare reform.· He has yet to deliver on promises such as welfare reform, an overhaul of campaign financing or a balanced budget.· But welfare reform is still worth a try.· Once again Congress and the president have deadlocked over the issue of welfare reform.· In human terms, however, welfare reform is definitely risky.· But, in short order, Lott orchestrated deals on a range of stalled legislation, from welfare reform to health care.· During the next three years, thousands of welfare families will be thrust into this low-income labor market because of welfare reform.· To make welfare reform work, you need some one to take care of and educate children.
· These groups can also have different experiences of authority and welfare services.· At the same time, health and welfare services will have to expand for a growing and aging population.· C., a proposal in Congress would end federal financing for health and welfare services for legal immigrants.· He also wants to cut taxes, impose term limits and encourage churches to provide more welfare services.· He advocates ways of limiting men's role in child welfare services, and says men should practice nurturing each other.· Lack of adequate welfare services - health, housing, education - demonstrates the lack of sympathy for casualties.· It became an impersonal, distant, uncaring, social and welfare service.· Here in Britain we see a major role as key worker, or care manager, coordinating welfare services as well as health care.
· The system of state welfare is seen as one of the central means whereby society moves towards the creation of social equality.· One proposal in Indiana would eliminate the state welfare department altogether and place control for welfare with local agencies.· A minority or Liberals attacked the principle of state welfare, arguing that the state should rather encourage self-help and philanthropy.· The provision went on the books last year as part of an overhaul of state welfare law.· The most important benefits were adequate job provision, regular pay rises and state welfare services.· This meant they had less education and continued to depend on state welfare, which was more and more grudgingly supplied.· Comprehensive state welfare also induces dependency, reduces incentives to work, and blunts initiative and enterprise.· Hence, there was considerable tension within the labour movement as to the desirability of state welfare.
· Make another subtraction for everything else other than spending on the elderly that has to be done in the social welfare system.· The welfare systems introduced in the immediate postwar years built on previous achievements.· The welfare system, runs this view, makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour.· Past immigrants did not move into a society with a social welfare system.· Their mission: to find a policy for tackling poverty as radical as the welfare system founded by Beveridge 50 years ago.· For everyone the extended family was the social welfare system if they became sick, disabled, or old.
· The group was made up of an educational psychologist, a psychiatric social worker, an educational welfare worker and myself.· For example, a training program for public welfare workers could be the object of a special grant.· Eight policemen and welfare workers had raided their home - even searching dustbins for Alex.· Child welfare workers joined physicians as the authorities in service to the judiciary.· The full-time welfare workers of the Association also represent individuals at War Pension Tribunals.· Many agencies agreed to hire only a small percentage of welfare workers.· Unhappy endings were more familiar to the welfare workers.
VERB· I phone them every time he cuts welfare just to rub it in.· Overall, the bill would cut spending on welfare by about $ 60 billion over six years.
· If Congress ends welfare benefits, the state then would have to pick up the costs.· Hundreds of thousands end up on welfare rolls.· We are going to end welfare as we know it, balance the budget, have tax cuts for families and children.
· Green taxes are a double dividend option: they could cut environmental damage whilst promoting welfare.· The Constitution requires that the federal government promote the general welfare of its people.· The 1980 Child Care Act placed the duty of promoting the welfare of children as the first responsibility of social service departments.· Thus they are not to ask how their decisions can best promote the general welfare.
· This general power to provide accommodation on welfare grounds applies only to children under the age of 18 years.· Apart from education, the state does not provide many welfare goods and services to its citizens.· Emphasis is placed on the responsibility of individuals to provide for their own welfare needs and those of their dependants.· He also wants to cut taxes, impose term limits and encourage churches to provide more welfare services.· The State of California shall provide a child welfare building to serve as day care centres for single parents.· We aim to provide and extend a welfare service and raise many thousands of pounds annually to sponsor medical research.· Together they provide the student welfare, typing and photocopying services, along with catering and club bar facilities.
· In fact they would declare that no man worth his snot would sign up for welfare.· From the left, he is accused of political cowardice in signing the Republican welfare overhaul with its roiling undercurrents of race.· House Republicans are searching for a way to force Clinton to sign a welfare reform bill.· Clinton signed a minimum-wage increase into law on Tuesday and plans to sign a massive welfare reform bill today.· Jesse Jackson have criticized the president for signing the welfare act.
· He announced large increases in spending on social welfare, education and the environment while stressing his commitment to low taxation.· The state will provide $ 2. 9 billion, bringing the total spending on welfare to $ 6. 6 billion.· Pataki is cutting deeply into spending on Medicaid and welfare in order to pay for hefty tax cuts.· Everyone knew that would drive up spending on welfare and homeless shelters.· Those humans who are surviving most successfully, now spend time considering the welfare of other creatures.· For instance, one provision allows them to spend money earmarked for welfare on other programs.· Overall, the bill would cut spending on welfare by about $ 60 billion over six years.
Our only concern is the children’s welfare.2help that is provided for people who have personal or social problemswelfare benefits/services/programmes etc the provision of education and welfare services The company’s welfare officer deals with employees’ personal problems.3American English money that is paid by the government in the US to people who are very poor or unemployed SYN benefit British Englishon welfare Most of the people in this neighborhood are on welfare.