Usually means: Assistance for health, safety, well-being.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word welfare:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. welfare: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. welfare: Merriam-Webster
  3. welfare: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. welfare: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. welfare, the welfare: Collins English Dictionary
  6. welfare: Vocabulary.com
  7. Welfare, welfare: Wordnik
  8. welfare: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. welfare: Wiktionary
  10. welfare: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. welfare: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. welfare: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. welfare: Dictionary.com
  14. welfare: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. welfare: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Welfare (disambiguation), Welfare (financial aid), Welfare: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Welfare: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. welfare: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. welfare: Rhymezone
  20. welfare: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. welfare: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Welfare: American-Britih Dictionary
  23. welfare: FreeDictionary.org
  24. welfare: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. welfare: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Welfare: World Wide Words

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Welfare: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. Welfare: Investopedia
  3. Welfare (disambiguation), welfare: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Welfare (disambiguation), Welfare (financial aid), welfare: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Welfare (disambiguation), welfare: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

(Note: See welfares as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
noun:  (uncountable, chiefly US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with welfare or aid.

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