social insurance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.82 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, disabled, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any insurance run by a government to cover all citizens, including the aforementioned types as well as health insurance of social type (socialized medicine).
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonym: social security (not always different)"
- "Panama unified all social insurances in the 1970s and began a process of integration with the public sector that was later halted."
- "Historical, cultural and institutional attributes influenced Scandinavian political choices for social insurance institutions and welfare policies at the time of the Bismarckian 'conception' of national social insurance on a grand scale in the 1880s."
- "By 1942, Beveridge had been an advocate of social insurance for more than thirty years."
- "The original Social Security Act (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended, encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs."