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• Welfare (financial aid) — Welfare is financial assistance paid to people by governments. Some welfare is general, while specific and can only be invoked under certain circumstances, such as a scholarship. Welfare payments can be made to individuals or to companies or… …   Wikipedia

• Relief Society — Seal Motto Charity never faileth Formation March 17, 1842 Type Non p …   Wikipedia

• relief — relief1 reliefless, adj. /ri leef /, n. 1. alleviation, ease, or deliverance through the removal of pain, distress, oppression, etc. 2. a means or thing that relieves pain, distress, anxiety, etc. 3. money, food, or other help given to those in… …   Universalium

• welfare and poverty relief — In China, welfare or fuli evokes a rich connotation of meanings and perceptions. In the broad sense, welfare refers to benefits and entitlements associated with employment, and in particular the collective amenities provided at the workplace for… …   Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture

• relief — Synonyms and related words: ADC, CYSP sculpture, Medicaid, Medicare, abatement, agent, aid, aid and comfort, alimony, allayment, alleviation, allotment, allowance, alterative, alternate, alternative, anaglyph, anaglyptics, anaglyptography,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• relief — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. comfort, alleviation (see relief); assistance, welfare, aid; substitution, substitute; projection, convexity. II Alleviation Nouns 1. relief, deliverance, easement, softening, alleviation,… …   English dictionary for students

• relief — n. easing of pain, of a burden 1) to bring; give relief 2) to express; feel relief 3) to find; receive; seek relief (they found relief in looking at their son s photographs) 4) great, immense; instant; permanent; temporary relief 5) (esp. BE) tax …   Combinatory dictionary

• Welfare state — This article is about the welfare state as a general concept. For the system known as the Welfare State in the United Kingdom, see Welfare State. % of GDP in social expenditures in OECD states, 2001. A welfare state is a concept of government in… …   Wikipedia

• welfare — In the broadest sense, the good of the people. The well being of an individual. In a more limited sense familiar in modern usage, public relief for the poor, as provided under relief or welfare acts. 41 Am J1st Poor L §§ 13 et seq. The whole is… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Welfare queen — A welfare queen is a pejorative neologism used to describe women who are presumed to collect welfare checks, or excess amounts, through fraud or manipulation. Sensational reporting on (what would become known as) welfare queens began during the… …   Wikipedia

• welfare — Synonyms and related words: ADC, Easy Street, Medicaid, Medicare, advantage, affluence, aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, almsgiving, altruistic, annuity, assistance, avail, bed of roses, behalf, behoof, beneficent, benefit, benevolent, benison …   Moby Thesaurus