Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
social service
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was also necessary to provide complementary training for the professional members of the social service teams.
WordNet
social service
n. an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society [syn: welfare work]
Usage examples of "social service".
Kay had recently been graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago and was now working as a vocational rehabilitation job coach, overseeing deaf clients who had come to her social service agency, unable to find work by themselves.
About the government not doing enough in the way of social service.
In your day the social service bureaucracy was growing by leaps and bounds.
He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life.