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SOCIAL INSURANCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("social insurance" is a kind of...):
public assistance; social welfare; welfare (governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "social insurance"):
national insurance (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)
national assistance; social assistance; supplementary benefit (benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law)
Social Security (social welfare program in the U.S.; includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance)
unemployment compensation (payment by a United States agency to unemployed people)
disability insurance (social insurance for the disabled)
health care (social insurance for the ill and injured)
