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Answer for the clue "Activity improving welfare ", 11 letters:
social work

Word definitions for social work in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Social work is an academic and professional discipline that seeks to facilitate the welfare of communities, individuals, families, and groups. It may promote social change, development, cohesion, and empowerment. Underpinned by theories of social sciences ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But Hearn also has extensive social work experience, especially in the area of child care. ▪ Gillian I started training in social work after I left university. ▪ If anything, social work teaching is in even greater disarray. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to members of the community.

Usage examples of social work.

If you can't sell aspects of your primary property then how can we have the most beloved trade of all true lovers of liberty, namely the fine social work performed by prostitutes throughout the ages?

And it saves private citizens from the insufferable buttinsky-ness of social work, the prying catechisms that determine the 'deserving' poor.

Every teacher in the public schools has a de facto degree in social work.

Mencken), thinks of herself as an intellectual, and has vague plans to do social work.

Hirata entered, accompanied by a young man who was in training for social work within the prison system, and who diffidently stood apart while the older man ran routinely through his list of questions and meticulously checked off each response on his clipboard sheet.

But he ought to know, and the Church and the world ought to know, and in order that it may I will make bold to say that the officials cannot put their hands on the names of a thousand men in all parts of the world who are to-day members of the Army who were converted at the penitent form of shelters and elevators, who are now earning a living outside the control of the Army's social work.

One day it occurred to her that social work might be diverting&mdash.

One day it occurred to her that social work might be diverting—.

Skeldergate and I have to come to grips with the actualities of society, she in her social work and I in the courts.