Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
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5.5
- proper noun
- Formal
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Departamento de Salud, Educación y Bienestar
- Furthermore, "an inability to build or maintain satisfactory interpersonal relationships with peers and teachers" is one of the main criteria for identifying children with serious emotional disturbance (SED) according to the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1997, p. 42478).
- U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Examples
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In March 1974, the district court in the District of Columbia combined two cases that directly concerned the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's sterilization regulations.
Academic text (2000) -
Almost thirty years have passed since the Surgeon General of the United States released the first report on the effects of smoking (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1964).
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare never had adequate staff to monitor Title IV activities.
Academic text (2004) -
I also had a chance to discuss affirmative action with the representatives from Washington of what was then the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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This act authorized the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to make grants to colleges and universities for teacher training and research in physical education.
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The first two were strongly opposed within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, for they went against conventional wisdom as well as the recently initiated federal policy of funding school physical facilities.
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Beginning in 1966, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (later reorganized into HHS) began a public awareness campaign to inform the public and reduce cigarette consumption.
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The enacted final version established the AoA as an operating agency of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (P.L. 89-73, H.R. 3705).
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The leaders of the CDC and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) warned the White House that there was a reasonably high probability that a catastrophic flu pandemic was about to hit.
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The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was established in 1953 to oversee health and education programs.
Surface Forms
Morphology
department + of + Health, + Education, + and + welfare
The phrase is a straightforward compositional proper-name: 'department' (an organizational unit) + 'of' + the list 'health, education and welfare' yields the meaning 'a government department responsible for those areas'. This is a cross-linguistically common and literal naming pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words can readily infer the MWE's meaning (though historical details like dates are not derivable).
Etymology
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare was a U.S. government department that put three public services in one place. Imagine a doctor, a teacher, and someone who helps people sitting in the same office, standing for health, education, and welfare, so the name means one department that looked after 'health', 'education', and 'welfare'.