Meaning

2 senses
  1. A national level social system of a country operated by its sovereign central government for the citizens' welfare overall responsibility, providing health care, education, unemployment benefits and social security.

    Wohlfahrtsstaat

    социа́льное госуда́рствоsociálʹnoje gosudárstvo

    a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

  2. A country in which such a system operates.

    Wohlfahrtsstaat

    социа́льное госуда́рствоsociálʹnoje gosudárstvo

Examples

6 sentences
  1. France is running a welfare state it can no longer afford.

  2. Germans value a strong social welfare state.

    deDie Deutschen schätzen einen starken Sozialstaat. — al_ex_an_der

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  3. Algeria's welfare state does not come cheap.

  4. Algeria has an oil-funded welfare state.

  5. Algeria has a welfare state.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
national level social system of a country operated by its sovereign central government for the citizens' welfare overall responsibility:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
national level social system of a country operated by its sovereign central government for the citizens' welfare overall responsibility:

Origin

Compound of welfare + state.

Compound of welfare + state.

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Forms

plural: welfare states
Singularwelfare state
Pluralwelfare states

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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