WELFARE STATE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("welfare state" is a kind of...):

state (the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state)

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