public assistance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.55 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Payment made to disadvantaged persons by government in order to alleviate the burdens of poverty, unemployment, disability, old age, etc.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Suddenly thrown on the world, with a wife and four children, with but the wages of a week for his and their support, they had travelled thus far on the way to a neighboring parish, where he said he had a right to, and must seek, public assistance."
- "Bush has made public assistance—specifically welfare—a constant target of his campaign rhetoric."
- "She also signed up for public assistance, and gets $356 a month and $388 in food stamps."
- "The Tobacco Fund is financed by a deduction from the premiums granted to tobacco producers and it is therefore justified to propose that all public assistance for measures financed under the Fund be provided from the Community own resources in the Fund. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2002:331:0016:0022:EN:PDF"