welfare

Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.uncountableusually

• Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of

Shortened form of "welfare spending", "welfare payments", or "welfare assistance".USinformaluncountable

• Oliveira seems to suggest that the Jews of Kiryas Joel are somehow gaming the welfare system to fund their lifestyles, while simultaneously acknowledging the high poverty rates in the town that qualify residents for programs like Medicaid.

To provide with welfare or aid.transitive

• welfaring the poor