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meals on wheels
meals on wheels or meals-on-wheelsn (Social Welfare) (functioning as singular) social welfare Brit a service, usually subsidized, and run by a social services department or voluntary body, which delivers hot meals to elderly or housebound people who might otherwise be unable to have themTranslationsmeal1 (miːl) noun the food taken at one time. She eats three meals a day. 一餐 膳食，一餐 meals on wheels free meals delivered by car etc to the elderly and the sick. 送餐上門服務送餐服務(給老人或病人的) 上门送餐服务make a meal of (something) to take more than the necessary amount of time or trouble over (something) or make (it) seem more complicated than it really is. He really made a meal of that job – it took him four hours! 小題大作 小题大作Meals on Wheels
Meals on WheelsA program that organizes food delivery to the elderly, ill, and other people who cannot leave their homes or cook for themselves. Before he went into a nursing home, my grandfather got food delivered to him by Meals on Wheels.See also: Meal, on, Wheelmeals on wheels
meals on wheels Deliveries of pre-cooked meals to the homes of people who are housebound and/or are unable to prepare meals and/or cook for themselves, which, in the UK, may be provided to individuals after a formal needs assessment by social services.Meals on WheelsPrograms that provide to the elderly and infirmed home-delivered meals that meet federally mandated criteria.ThesaurusSeemeal |