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human services

human services noun: an interdisciplinary field of study with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention and remediation of problems.

Noun

human services (uncountable)

  1. An interdisciplinary field of study with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention and remediation of problems.

Questions about human services

What does human services mean?
Human services means an interdisciplinary field of study with the objective of meeting human needs through an applied knowledge base, focusing on prevention and remediation of problems.
What part of speech is human services?
Human services is a noun.

Words near human services in the dictionary

  1. human sacrifice
  2. human sacrifices
  3. human safari
  4. human safaris
  5. human seminal plasma protein hypersensitivity
  6. human services
  7. human settlement
  8. human settlements
  9. human shield
  10. human shields
  11. human smuggling

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