food stamp
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2.5
- noun
- /fuːd stæmp/
- Archaic
:
vales de comida (EE. UU.)
- Many low-income families rely on food stamps to buy groceries each month.
- food stamp program
- food stamp benefits
- receive food stamps
Then I went for food stamps because I had no fucking money.
- Then I went for food stamps because I had no fucking money.
- And now people want to know if I take food stamps and if my salmon is wild caught.
- We had food stamps and other government benefits.
- Sorry, you can't buy this brand name item with your food stamps.
- But in England there are nurses, doctors and police who literally are on food stamps because they can't afford their rent.
- But he was an abusive man and they struggled to get by, often relying on food stamps for support.
- So at a governmental level, I think we could help things by not allowing food stamps to be able to be used to buy junk food.
- One such experiment was run to actually randomly give some people cash and some people food stamps.
- Now I want to ask you, do you think any of those three careers, any people in those three careers, are they on welfare, food stamps, or medical?
- But the big ticket items are SNAP, the food stamps, commodity subsidies and crop insurance and and conservation.
- Financial support, food stamps and so forth and or insurance company?
- That that that Louisiana purchase card, that food stamp card won't pay for.
- So I mean, my family was on the food stamps.
- And this is a from a kid who was broke on Hoc welfare, food stamps, parents on drugs.
Examples
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When people hear that, most of us think about poor people lined up for food stamps and rent subsidies.
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So when we first moved down here, I know we signed up for food stamps.
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We had food stamps and other government benefits.
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And then one day my Mama gave me food stamps and was like, go to the store with that, right?
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We lived on, you know, food stamps and, and hand me down clothes and whatever we we got by.
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We grew up on food stamps.
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Two days later, the day our son Jack turned six, our first food stamps arrived in the mail.
Fiction book (1995) -
He'd been living at a senior citizens' home and getting by on Social Security and food stamps.
Academic text (2011) -
I grew up on on on WIC and food stamps, government assistance.
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Far too many Walmart workers qualify for food stamps, which we the people pay for.
Blog text (4)
Surface Forms
Morphology
The element 'food' clearly signals the domain (things to eat), but the constituent 'stamp' in its literal sense (a mark or postage stamp) does not directly indicate a voucher. The compound is therefore partially compositional — learners can guess it relates to food but need cultural or lexical knowledge that 'stamp' here means a government-issued coupon for buying food, making it only semi-transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Food stamp comes from real paper coupons the government once gave to people with little money to buy food, and each coupon looked like a stamp. So today food stamp means 'a government voucher or card to help people buy food'.