public welfare
11Welfare department — may refer to:*United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare *Department of Social Welfare and Development (Philippines) *Health, Welfare and Food Bureau of Hong Kong *Department of Public Welfareee also*Welfare (financial aid) …
12welfare — I noun advantage, affluence, benefit, commodis consulere, fortune, good, haleness, happiness, health, hominis, interest, luck, prosperity, prosperousness, soundness, success, weal, well being associated concepts: public welfare II index …
13public — [pub′lik] adj. [ME < L publicus: altered (prob. infl. by pubes, adult) < poplicus, contr. of populicus, public < populus, the PEOPLE] 1. of, belonging to, or concerning the people as a whole; of or by the community at large [the public… …
14public-spirited — public spiritedness, n. /pub lik spir i tid/, adj. having or showing an unselfish interest in the public welfare: a public spirited citizen. [1670 80] * * * …
15public-spirited — [pub′lik spir′it id] adj. having or showing zeal for the public welfare …
16welfare — n. governmental financial aid 1) public welfare 2) (esp. US) on welfare (to be on welfare; to go on welfare) well being 3) to promote the public welfare 4) the general; public welfare 5) for smb. s welfare * * * [ welfeə] [ governmental financial …
17welfare — 01. He lost his job over a year ago, and now his family is surviving on [welfare] payments from the government. 02. You should consider the [welfare] of your family before you decide to take a job in another city. 03. People in this country who… …
18welfare — Synonyms and related words: ADC, Easy Street, Medicaid, Medicare, advantage, affluence, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, almsgiving, altruistic, annuity, assistance, avail, bed of roses, behalf, behoof, beneficent, benefit, benevolent, benison …
19welfare state — Synonyms and related words: ADC, Medicaid, Medicare, absolute monarchy, aristocracy, autarchy, autocracy, autonomy, child welfare, coalition government, colonialism, commonweal, commonwealth, constitutional government, constitutional monarchy,… …
20public policy — The policy of the law; the policy in relation to the administration of the law. Practically synonymous with public good or public welfare. National Bank of Commerce v Greenberg, 195 Tenn 217, 258 SW2d 765, 38 ALR2d 1337. The policy of promoting… …
