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Public assistance

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Payment made to disadvantaged persons by government in order to alleviate the burdens of poverty, unemployment, disability, old age, etc. uncountable

    "Suddenly thrown on the world, with a wife and four children, with but the wages of a week for his and their support, they had travelled thus far on the way to a neighboring parish, where he said he had a right to, and must seek, public assistance."

  2. 2
    governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need wordnet
  3. 3
    government subsidy uncountable

    "The Tobacco Fund is financed by a deduction from the premiums granted to tobacco producers and it is therefore justified to propose that all public assistance for measures financed under the Fund be provided from the Community own resources in the Fund. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2002:331:0016:0022:EN:PDF"

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