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susso

susso noun: unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.

Noun

susso (uncountable)

  1. (Australia, slang) Unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.
    • It was incomprehensible to me: Uncle Will, who had been refused ‘Susso’ in the Depression and told, instead, to go to the Aborigines Department for rations […] wanted to name his father as among the very first to ‘settle’ at Gebalup […]1999, Kim Scott, Benang, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 200

Origin of susso

From sus(tenance) + -o.

Questions about susso

What does susso mean?
Susso means unemployment relief; welfare; the dole.
What part of speech is susso?
Susso is a noun.

Words near susso in the dictionary

  1. sussing out
  2. Susskind
  3. Susskinds
  4. Sussman
  5. Sussmans
  6. susso
  7. sussreserve
  8. sussultatory
  9. sussultorial
  10. sussuration
  11. sussurations

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