Usually means: Government provides extensive social support.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. welfare state: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. welfare state: Merriam-Webster
  3. welfare state: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. welfare state: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. welfare state: Collins English Dictionary
  6. welfare state: Vocabulary.com
  7. welfare-state: Wordnik
  8. welfare state: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. welfare state: Wiktionary
  10. welfare state: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. welfare state: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. welfare state: Dictionary.com
  13. Welfare State, Welfare state: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. welfare state: Rhymezone
  15. welfare state: FreeDictionary.org
  16. welfare state: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. welfare state: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Welfare state: bizterms.net
  2. Welfare state: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. Welfare State: Inflation Glossary
  4. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. welfare state: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (welfare state)

noun:  A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment benefits and social security.
noun:  A country in which such a system operates.

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