welfare work

welfare work

noun
the efforts or programs of an agency, community, business organization, etc., to improve living conditions, increase job opportunities, secure hospitalization, and the like, for needy persons within its jurisdiction.

Origin:
1905–10

welfare worker, noun
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welfare work

noun
an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society 
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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