WordNet
n. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need [syn: welfare]
Wikipedia
The Social Welfare , formerly called Social Services, is a functional constituency in the elections for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong first created in 1985. Electors include all the registered social workers. It has been one of the few functional constituencies where were the strongholds of the pro-democrats, held by Cheung Kwok-che in 2008 of the Hong Kong Social Workers' General Union (SWGU).
Usage examples of "social welfare".
California has a pleasant climate, an excellent social welfare system, a tolerance of social rebels and a thriving drug traffic.
The fact that such a plant might sharply alter labor patterns, that within a decade it might throw men out of work, force large-scale retraining of workers, and swell the social welfare costs of a nearby city--such considerations are too remote in time to concern them.
The uncongenial one was Nike Quinto, Chief of Intercosmic Social Welfare and Development.
Biswas had become the _Sentinel's_ expert on matters of social welfare.
Instead, all were active in either politics, reform, or social welfare, and none was considered the highest of haute ton.
His absence during that night did not surprise you because you knew he was doing some kind of social welfare work.
It was reinforced a few months later when she spent a summer in crowded, overpopulated Mexico City and then, after graduation a year later, worked in social welfare in the slums of Washington.
Isn't that a social welfare program for underprivileged lunatics who can't afford psychoses of their own?
They were already so wrapped up with social welfare programs that they couldn't build the sort of fleet and garrison force they needed and still be redistributionist.
Just by existing, by going to work and paying your taxes, catching the occasional bus and being a generally decent if unexceptional soul, you felt as if you were contributing in some small way to the maintenance of a noble enterprise - a generally compassionate and well-meaning society with health care for all, decent public transport, intelligent television, universal social welfare and all the rest of it.