flexicurity
A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and…A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
Origin
Blend of flexibility + security, coined by Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in tBlend of flexibility + security, coined by Danish prime minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen in the 1990s.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable