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SOCIAL WORK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("social work" is a kind of...):
social service; welfare work (an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society)