welfare work
noun [mass noun]
Organized effort to promote the basic physical and material well-being of people in need.The spokesman of the organisation said that welfare work would be done along with the people of other communities....
- In the mid-1980s he did part-time child welfare work and health care research while studying for a Master's degree in Public Administration at Dalhousie University.
- So it was a very interesting time, and I was right up to my neck in social welfare work.
Derivatives
welfare worker
- Each Army unit has a soldier assigned as a welfare worker.
- My saving grace came in the form of a social welfare worker who recognised that I was a good father.
- When the welfare worker finished, several people booed.
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