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social insurances

social insurances is the plural of social insurance.

Meaning of social insurance

Noun

social insurance (countable and uncountable, plural social insurances)

  1. 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)
    Synonyms:
    social security
  2. (broader) Any insurance run by a government to cover all citizens, including the aforementioned types as well as health insurance of social type (socialized medicine).

Questions about social insurances

What is social insurances the plural of?
Social insurances is the plural of social insurance.

Words near social insurances in the dictionary

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  2. social insects
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  4. social insurance number
  5. social insurance numbers
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  9. social jet lag
  10. social justice
  11. social justice warrior

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Adapted from Wiktionary: social insurances (page history and authors); social insurance (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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