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sit-down money

sit-down money noun: welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.

Noun

sit-down money (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, colloquial, informal, chiefly Australian Aboriginal) Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.
    • I have given you examples of some of the reforms we have already put in place which are helping young people, for example, to find jobs instead of getting sit-down money, which they got from Labor.1999, Australian Senate, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 9151
    • A discussion paper being released today canvasses a number of proposals to transform the payments that have become known as ‘sit-down money’.2005 February 21, Australian Broadcasting Commission, The World Today, transcript

Forms of sit-down money

alternative formsit down money

Questions about sit-down money

What does sit-down money mean?
Sit-down money means welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginal people.
What part of speech is sit-down money?
Sit-down money is a noun.

Words near sit-down money in the dictionary

  1. sit-by-the-fire
  2. sit-by-the-fires
  3. sit-com
  4. sit-coms
  5. sit-down
  6. sit-down money
  7. sit-downer
  8. sit-downers
  9. sit-downs
  10. sit-in
  11. sit-inner

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