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national insurance

national insurance noun: a system of taxes paid by workers and employers, used primarily to fund state benefits.

Noun

national insurance (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, UK) A system of taxes paid by workers and employers, used primarily to fund state benefits.

national insurance meaning in Kannada

national insurance in Kannada

ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ವಿಮೆ

Origin of national insurance

Introduced by the National Insurance Act 1911.

Words formed from national insurance

Questions about national insurance

What does national insurance mean?
National insurance means a system of taxes paid by workers and employers, used primarily to fund state benefits.
What is national insurance in Kannada?
National insurance in Kannada is ರಾಷ್ಟ್ರೀಯ ವಿಮೆ. See National insurance meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is national insurance?
National insurance is a noun.

Words near national insurance in the dictionary

  1. national grids
  2. National Heroes Day
  3. national holiday
  4. national holidays
  5. national income
  6. national insurance
  7. national insurance number
  8. national insurance numbers
  9. national interest
  10. national interests
  11. National League

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Adapted from Wiktionary: national insurance (page history and authors); national insurance (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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