Words / B2

WELF-air/ˈwelfeə/

Welfare is health, happiness, and safety, or state money and services for people in need: animal welfare; a welfare state. Well-being is the personal twin; benefits is the payments sense. Animal welfare featured in the ethics question. Mix-up: farewell is goodbye; warfare is fighting. Do not write welfare for a one-off gift voucher.

Meaning

Health, happiness, and safety; also money and services from the state for people in need.

Examples

• “Animal welfare featured in the biology ethics question, not only in farming news.”
• “Welfare payments rose after the mill closed, which is the state-support sense.”

Good to know

animal / child welfare; the welfare state. Close: well-being. Trap: farewell / warfare. Ethics, politics, and biology. Safety or state support, not a goodbye.

Near in meaning

well-being

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