welfare
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Synonyms & Antonyms for welfare
Synonyms: Noun
good, interest, weal, well-being
Antonyms: Noun
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Examples of welfare in a Sentence
Noun
He wants to do away with welfare. I have your welfare at heart. The welfare of all the orphans was at stake. She donates to organizations concerned about animal welfare.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
The attorney general will argue that rule interferes with states’ ability to ensure the health, safety and welfare of children. — Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, "California to sue over Trump plan to hold immigrant children indefinitely," 26 Aug. 2019 The lawsuit announced Monday argues that the new policy interferes with the states’ ability to help ensure the health, safety and welfare of children by undermining state licensing requirements for facilities where children are held. — Patrick Mcgreevy, Los Angeles Times, "California sues over Trump immigration policy on indefinite detention of migrant children," 26 Aug. 2019 Engineers are expected to follow a code of ethics, which mandates that engineers develop products with user safety and welfare in mind. — oregonlive.com, "West Linn grad returns to the Portland metro area for job at Nike," 17 Aug. 2019 Clinton, progressive critics argued, harmed African American families with welfare reform efforts and a 1994 crime bill that many experts blame for accelerating mass incarceration. — NBC News, "Toni Morrison defended, championed and chastised presidents," 6 Aug. 2019 This was the case with the 1996 welfare-reform act, for example. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, "A UBI Would Undermine Work," 25 July 2019 That rate was modeled after previous studies that measured disenrollment rates among eligible immigrants around the time of the 1996 welfare reform. — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, "Trump's immigration proposal could cause millions of children to opt out of health benefits, study says," 1 July 2019 Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron cut the top corporate tax rate in 2015 to 20% from 28% and enacted a series of social-welfare reforms designed to push more people into work. — Joseph C. Sternberg, WSJ, "A British Warning for the Trump Fed," 20 June 2019 Levin’s reporting is exhaustive — a study of welfare reform, a deep dive into FBI files and old court transcripts. — Lynell George, latimes.com, "‘The Queen’ was kidnapper and a grifter — but her welfare scam made her a symbol," 7 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Even overtly welfare-ish Medicaid payments—originally intended to provide care for poor children—now go largely to long-term care for mainly middle-class elderly. — Eric B. Schnurer, The Atlantic, "'It's the Grandparents Stealing From the Grandchildren'," 12 Dec. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'welfare.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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