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social service
[social a. 7.]
1. Service to society or to one's fellow-men, esp. as exhibited in work on behalf of the poor, the underprivileged, etc.
1851J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 169 Scientific inquiry into the production and distribution of wealth, as a branch of social service. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiv. 599 The other social affections, Benevolence, Conscientiousness, Ambition, etc., arise in like manner by the transfer of the bodily pleasure experienced as a reward for social service. 1921R. H. Tawney Acquisitive Society x. 219 If medical officers of health, directors of education, and directors of the Co-operative Wholesale be assumed to be quite uninfluenced by any consciousness of social service. 1926E. Hemingway Sun also Rises ix. 85 ‘I rather thought it would be good for him.’ ‘You might take up social service.’ ‘Don't be nasty.’ 1977R. L. Wolff Gains & Losses vii. 404 Sublimation of doubt in sex, social service among the poor as a substitute for faith..we shall encounter them again and again in..novels of doubt.
2. With a and pl. A service supplied for the benefit of the community, esp. any of those provided by the central or local government, such as education, medical treatment, social welfare, etc.
1933J. Buchan Prince of Captivity ii. iii. 230 He is not prepared to go back on our social services... All parties go on sluicing out..new benefits from the public funds. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 506 This Cockney taxi-driver would be..able to rely on an amplitude of social services in any emergency. 1945Ann. Reg. 1944 i. 82 The basic principle that compensation of workmen for industrial injury should be made a public social service. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 10 Apr. 203/2 Not even the welfare state and social services, and certainly not the nationalized industries, are now viewed by the mass of adult Britons as immaculate, brought down from Sinai. 1976Times 22 July 16/1 There is more demand to cut taxes than to expand social services.
3. attrib.
a. sing. (senses 1 and 2), as social-service cut, social service work, etc.
1900J. P. Smyth (title) Social service ideals. 1911J. B. Haldane Social Workers' Guide 127/1 Diocesan Social Service Committees. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Apr. 9/4 Mrs. Hallam, secretary of the Social Service Committee, requested that Miss Thompson, now acting for the organization as a social worker, be recognized as a woman police officer. 1929Hughes & Stuenkel (title) The Social Service Exchange in Chicago. 1932Bombay Chron. 20 Dec. 5 The work of the Social Service League has been good all round. 1937M. Hillis Orchids on your Budget iii. 57 She also does the marketing by car, does social-service work in it once a week. 1956F. Lafitte in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 574 Britain's heavy heritage of obsolescent social-service buildings. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1976) II. 444 He made an immensely demagogic speech saying that we'd spent more on social services than the Tories in their last three years, denying there was any question of social-service cuts. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xix. 279 They include the Social Service Departments, Youth Service Departments, probation officers, and officers of the L.E.A. Careers Service.
b. pl. (sense 2), as social services department, etc.
1973Guardian 30 May 9/2 Croydon's social services department is setting up a special training programme for new foster parents. 1974Times 13 Nov. 16/2 The whole social services structure leads to good fieldworkers being lost to the management side. Ibid., Management training in the social services field is possible. 1976Derbyshire Times (Peak ed.) 3 Sept. 1/1 The party was from a Social Services home in Wartsones Road, Wolverhampton. |