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• Department of Health Education and Welfare (noun)
  1. a former executive department of the United States government; created in 1953 and divided in 1979
• Secretary of Health Education and Welfare (noun)
  1. head of a former executive department created in 1953 and divided into two departments in 1979
• child welfare agency (noun)
  1. an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children
• child welfare service (noun)
  1. an administrative unit responsible for social work concerned with the welfare and vocational training of children
• social welfare (noun)
  1. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need
• welfare case (noun)
  1. a case for a welfare worker
• welfare state (noun)
  1. the welfare state a system in which the government provides money, free medical care etc for people who are unemployed, ill, or too old to work [↪  social security]
  2. [countable] a country with such a system
• welfare work (noun)
  1. an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society
• welfare worker (noun)
  1. especially to the disadvantaged someone employed to provide social services
• welfare-statist (adjective)
  1. of or relating to a welfare state
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