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usually uncountable, plural welfares
(uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect. quotations examples
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 village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIX, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
(uncountable, chiefly US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (often called welfare assistance in UK English). examples
third-person singular simple present welfares, present participle welfaring, simple past and past participle welfared
(transitive) To provide with welfare or aid. examples