social insurance
social insurance noun: government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, disabled, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
Noun
social insurance (countable and uncountable, plural social insurances)
- Government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, disabled, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
- Near-synonym: social security (not always different)
- Panama unified all social insurances in the 1970s and began a process of integration with the public sector that was later halted.2008, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care, →ISBN, page 236
- Synonyms:
- social security
- Any insurance run by a government to cover all citizens, including the aforementioned types as well as health insurance of social type (socialized medicine).
social insurance meaning in Tamil, Malay, Indonesian and Vietnamese
social insurance in Tamil
- சமூகக் காப்பீடு
social insurance in Malay
- government-mandated provision
- insurans sosial
social insurance in Indonesian
- government-mandated provision
- asuransi sosial
social insurance in Vietnamese
- government-mandated provision
- bảo hiểm xã hội
Examples of social insurance in a sentence
- By 1942, Beveridge had been an advocate of social insurance for more than thirty years.2014, Karel Williams, John Williams, A Beveridge Reader, →ISBN, page 72:
- The original Social Security Act (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended, encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs.2016, Stanley L. Brue, Essentials of Economics, →ISBN:
Synonyms of social insurance
Forms of social insurance
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Questions about social insurance
- What does social insurance mean?
- Social insurance means government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, disabled, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
- What is social insurance in Tamil?
- Social insurance in Tamil is சமூகக் காப்பீடு. See Social insurance meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use social insurance in a sentence?
- By 1942, Beveridge had been an advocate of social insurance for more than thirty years.
- What part of speech is social insurance?
- Social insurance is a noun.
- What is the plural of social insurance?
- The plural of social insurance is social insurances.
Words near social insurance in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: social insurance (page history and authors); social insurance (Tamil 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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