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Welfare work   /wˈɛlfˌɛr wərk/   Listen
Welfare work

noun
1.
An organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society.  Synonym: social service.





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"Welfare work" Quotes from Famous Books



... in July that we left Camp Baker for Camp Berry. Your letter must have gone astray. I heard from the old home town of Gridley that you and Hazelton had gone across—-something to do with welfare work. I couldn't make it out," Dick hurried on," neither did I know ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock
... to modern civilization, and a form of national and international altruism making for the betterment, not only of him who receives but as well of him who gives, was organized welfare work. The need of such work always existed; and the organization of trained and equipped auxiliary forces intelligently to perform it must have ever been apparent. It remained for the World War, conceived, at ...
— The Greater Love • George T. McCarthy


Words linked to "Welfare work" :   social work, casework, work


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