Meaning of welfare In English

• 0 help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have enough money:

  • Your taxes pay for welfare benefits such as unemployment and sickness pay.

  • UK After her month's sick leave, she was summoned to see the company's welfare officer.

• 1 physical and mental health and happiness, especially of a person:

  • The police are very concerned for the welfare of the missing child.

  • These organizations have fought very hard for the rights and welfare of immigrants.

  • animal welfare

• 2 physical and mental health and happiness:

  • We were concerned for our parents’ welfare when we heard about the storm in Florida.

• 3 help given, esp. money, by a government to people who are poor and who do not have jobs:

  • welfare benefits

  • The family had to go on welfare.

• 4 the general state of health or degree of success of a person, business, country, etc.:

  • Their GDP figures look good, but perhaps at a cost to their overall economic welfare.

  • We are a progressive employer concerned with employee welfare.

• 5 help given, especially by the state or another organization, to people who need it, especially because they are poor:

  • welfare services/programs/workers

  • Some people fear the euro will weaken their welfare system.

• 6 a system of payments by the government to people who are ill, poor, or have no job:

  • on welfare She is a single parent on welfare.