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Welfare state

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, 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. […]"

  2. 2
    a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    A country in which such a system operates.

Etymology

Compound of welfare + state.

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