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flexicurity

flexicurity noun: a welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).

Noun

flexicurity (uncountable)

  1. A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).

Origin of flexicurity

Blend of flexibility + security, coined by Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.

Questions about flexicurity

What does flexicurity mean?
Flexicurity means a welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
What part of speech is flexicurity?
Flexicurity is a noun.

Words near flexicurity in the dictionary

  1. flexibound
  2. flexicities
  3. flexicity
  4. flexicostate
  5. flexicuffs
  6. flexicurity
  7. flexicurve
  8. flexicurves
  9. flexid
  10. flexidisc
  11. flexidiscs

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