welfare state
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- noun
- /ˈwɛlˌfɛr steɪt/
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estado del bienestar
- Low birthrates threaten not only the viability of the developed world's welfare states but also the very survival of developed countries.
- create a welfare state
- build a welfare state
- a modern welfare state
In other words, all, nearly all the welfare states are facing this kind of fiscal crisis.
- In other words, all, nearly all the welfare states are facing this kind of fiscal crisis.
- So the hidden welfare state is the world of tax expenditures.
- And that's why in the Nordic welfare state of welfare society, depends how you see it.
- But they were underarm, They had immigration problems, they had socialist welfare states.
- I also think that this Canadian welfare state model is passe in the conditions of today's global economy.
- Yeah, give people a poor education, you criminalize trying to get a head in the state, and then you turn the an entire state into a welfare state.
- Do you want whatever welfare state you have destroyed and so on.
- We should be building a wall around the welfare state, not the United States.
- So that places more pressure on the welfare state and, and these types of economies.
- So I am a product of the dreaded welfare state.
- And you have been quite critical of the welfare state in some of your writings.
- And so that those, that is the, the main factor of what our, of our welfare state is trying to do.
- He's, you know, he's very happy to have to have people come here, but he wants to deconstruct the welfare state before they do.
- But you, you know, we got the modern welfare states, sort of it's early steps off the back of the Great Depression.
- So this is the problem at the heart of America's domestic political economy, the most inefficient welfare state in the world.
- But the welfare state kicks in now that's being squeezed and it's going to get squeezed even more.
- The rise of the modern welfare state or European cousins tell us that we're terribly stingy.
Examples
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The government implemented a new program to strengthen the welfare state and support low-income families.
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And clearly our welfare state is faced with challenges.
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In the absence of a global welfare state, there are many things that individual states have to do.
Academic text (2011) -
Britain, like Sweden, is a welfare state with a national health care system.
Academic text (1993) -
It's time to replace the assumptions of the welfare state and help reform the welfare system.
Academic text (1992) -
There are also external pressures on the future development of the Danish welfare state.
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The overall goal of the modern welfare state has been to unite economic prosperity with redistributive social justice.
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The trauma of hyperinflation only deepened Brazil's commitment to building a comprehensive welfare state.
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In many countries, the welfare state provides essential services like healthcare and education to its citizens.
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Debates about the future of the welfare state often focus on funding and its impact on the economy.
Synonyms
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A government that protects people too much and limits their choices
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A system in which the government gives money or services to help people
Antonyms
- Formal
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A way of running an economy that lets businesses compete with little government control
How Libertarian
- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'welfare' (government provision of aid) with 'state' (nation/government), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer a government system providing social support. This noun+noun composition is cross-linguistically common (e.g., Spanish 'estado de bienestar', French 'État-providence') and follows straightforward English compounding patterns.
Etymology
The term welfare state comes from the idea of a government that cares for people's well-being: welfare means well-being and state means the government. So a welfare state is a government that provides health care, help with housing, money for older people and support if people lose their jobs to meet their 'basic needs'.