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NATIONAL INSURANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Social insurance program in Britain; based on contributions from employers and employees; provides payments to unemployed and sick and retired people as well as medical services
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("national insurance" is a kind of...):
social insurance (government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue)