relief work
noun
1Work provided by the authorities or state for occupying and paying the unemployed.
2Charitable work intended to bring relief to those affected by poverty, famine, drought, etc.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in The Times.
- savior's flannel
- saviour
- saviouress
- saviour's blanket
- saviour's flannel
- saviourship
- saviour sibling
- Savi's warbler
- savoir faire
- savoir vivre
- Savonarola, Girolamo
- Savonarolan
- savonette
- Savonius
- Savonlinna
- Savonnerie carpet
- savonnette
- savor
- savorable
- savorous
- savory
- savory-leaved
- savory oil
- savour
- savourable