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welfare states

welfare states is the plural of welfare state.

Meaning of welfare state

Noun

welfare state (plural welfare states)

  1. A national level social system of a country operated by its sovereign central government for the citizens' welfare overall responsibility, providing health care, education, unemployment benefits and social security.
    • In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19
  2. A country in which such a system operates.

Questions about welfare states

What is welfare states the plural of?
Welfare states is the plural of welfare state.

Words near welfare states in the dictionary

  1. welfare rat
  2. welfare rats
  3. welfare state
  4. welfare stater
  5. welfare staters
  6. welfare states
  7. welfare statism
  8. welfare trap
  9. welfare traps
  10. welfare-to-work
  11. welfared

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