welfare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English welefare, probably from the Old English phrase wel faran (“to fare well, get along successfully, prosper”) (cognate with Middle Dutch welvare (“welfare”), Middle Low German wolvare (“welfare”), Middle High German wolvar, wolfar (“welfare”)). Equivalent to well + fare. Compare also West Frisian wolfeart, Dutch welvaart, German Wohlfahrt, Old Norse velferð (whence Swedish välfärd (“welfare”)). The first recorded use in the sense of "social concern for the well-being of children, the unemployed, etc." is from 1904 and in the sense of "organized effort to provide for maintenance of members of a group" from 1918.
Base: well
Inflected forms:
form: welfares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: welfares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: welfaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: welfared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: welfared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
gloss: Shortened form of "welfare spending", "welfare payments", or "welfare assistance".
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
uncountable
usually
examples: Oliveira seems to suggest that the Jews of Kiryas Joel are somehow gaming the welfare system to fund their lifestyles, while simultaneously acknowledging the high poverty rates in the town that qualify residents for programs like Medicaid.
gloss: To provide with welfare or aid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: welfaring the poor
Derived words: animal welfare
antiwelfare
corporate welfare
corporate welfare bum
postwelfare
prewelfare
social welfare
wealthfare
welfare bum
welfare Cadillac
welfare capitalism
welfare check
welfare economics
welfare hotel
welfare magnet
welfare mother
welfare parasite
welfare princess
welfare queen
welfare rat
welfare state
welfare-to-work
welfare trap
welfarite
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: социа́лна по́мощ
roman: sociálna pómošt
lang: Catalan
word: benestar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 福利
roman: fúlì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 社會福利 /社会福利
roman: shèhuì fúlì
lang: Danish
word: forsorg
lang: Finnish
word: sosiaaliavustus
lang: Finnish
word: sosiaalituki
lang: French
word: aide sociale
lang: Galician
word: beneficencia
lang: Galician
word: seguridade social
lang: German
word: Sozialhilfe
lang: German
word: Wohlfahrt
lang: Greek
word: πρόνοια
roman: prónoia
lang: Hungarian
word: segély
lang: Hungarian
word: juttatás
lang: Hungarian
word: támogatás
lang: Japanese
word: 福祉
roman: fukushi
lang: Khmer
word: ជំនួយសុខុមាលភាព
roman: cumnuəy-sokhomiəlphiəp
lang: Korean
word: 복지
roman: bokji
lang: Macedonian
word: соција́лна помош
roman: socijálna pomoš
lang: Māori
word: tokoora
lang: Polish
word: socjal
lang: Polish
word: zasiłek
lang: Portuguese
word: segurança social
lang: Russian
word: социа́льная по́мощь
roman: sociálʹnaja pómoščʹ
lang: Slovak
word: sociálna pomoc
lang: Spanish
word: seguridad social
lang: Thai
word: สวัสดิการ
roman: sà-wàt-dì-gaan
lang: Turkish
word: yardım
lang: Turkish
word: sosyal yardım
lang: Urdu
word: خیریت
roman: xairiyat
lang: Vietnamese
word: phúc lợi