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English

Etymology

wel faran "wellness" (cognate with velferð)

Pronunciation


Noun

welfare

  1. health, happiness and prosperity; contentment
  2. aid, provided by a government, etc. to people in need, especially financial aid


Translations

es:welfare fr:welfare io:welfare id:welfare it:welfare hu:welfare ja:welfare simple:welfare fi:welfare ta:welfare te:welfare vi:welfare zh:welfare

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Welfare \Wel"fare`\, n. [Well + fare to go, to proceed, to
happen.]
Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of
health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any
evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
[1913 Webster]

How to study for the people's welfare. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

In whose deep eyes
Men read the welfare of the times to come. --Emerson.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet welfare
n 1: governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in
need [syn: social welfare]
2: something that aids or promotes well-being; "for the common
good" [syn: benefit]
3: a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous;
"the town was finally on the upbeat after our recent
troubles" [syn: wellbeing, well-being, upbeat, eudaemonia,
eudaimonia] [ant: ill-being]
Moby Dictionary
ADC , Easy Street , Medicaid , Medicare , advantage , affluence , aid ,
alimony , allotment , allowance , almsgiving , altruistic , annuity ,
assistance , avail , bed of roses , behalf , behoof , beneficent ,
benefit , benevolent , benison , bighearted , blessing , boon , bounty ,
charitable , child welfare , clover , comfort , commonweal ,
contentment , cradle-to-grave security , depletion allowance , dole ,
ease , easy circumstances , eleemosynary , felicity , fellowship ,
financial assistance , fleshpots , fortune , freehearted , gain ,
generous , good , gracious life , gracious living , grant ,
grant-in-aid , greathearted , guaranteed annual income ,
guaranteed income , happiness , health insurance , help , humanitarian ,
interest , lap of luxury , largehearted , life of ease ,
loaves and fishes , luck , luxury , old-age assistance ,
old-age insurance , pecuniary aid , pension , philanthropic ,
price support , profit , prosperity , prosperousness ,
public assistance , public welfare , relief , retirement benefits ,
satisfaction , scholarship , security , sickness insurance ,
social insurance , social security , social service , social welfare ,
social work , socialized medicine , state medicine , stipend ,
subsidization , subsidy , subvention , success , support , tax benefit ,
the affluent life , the good life , thriving condition ,
unemployment compensation , unemployment insurance , upward mobility ,
velvet , weal , wealth , welfare aid , welfare capitalism ,
welfare payments , welfare state , welfare statism , welfare statist ,
welfare work , welfarism , welfarist , well-being ,
womb-to-tomb security , world of good


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