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Social security is the protection that a society provides to individuals and households to ensure access to health care and to guarantee income security, particularly in cases of old age, unemployment, sickness, invalidity, work injury, maternity or loss of a breadwinner.
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social security
UNCOUNTABLE NOUN
Social security is a system under which a government pays money regularly to certain groups of people, for example people who are sick, are unemployed, or those who have no other income.
...women who did not have jobs and were on social security.
Families on social security benefits will be harshly affected.
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social security
in British English
NOUN
1. public provision for the economic, and sometimes social, welfare of elderly people, unemployed people, etc, esp through pensions and other monetary assistance
2. (often capitals)
a government programme designed to provide such assistance
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social security
in American English
US
1. any system by which a group provides for those of its members who may be in need
2. [usually S- S-]
in the U.S., a federal system of old-age, unemployment, or disability insurance for various categories of employed and dependent persons, financed by a fund maintained jointly by employees, employers, and the government
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
social security
in American English
NOUN
1. (usually caps)
a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups
2. the theory or practice of providing economic security and social welfare for the individual through government programs maintained by moneys from public taxation
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Word origin
[1930–35]
Examples of 'social security' in a sentence
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They make less use of medical systems and social security.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The social security system is very costly.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The first criticism is that the basic aim of a social security system is not being realized.
Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990)
European social security systems are groaning under demographic change.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a social security system, and most people all over the world depend on it.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
We've got to have a social security system which provides real support to those who genuinely need it.
The Sun (2014)
Federal spending increased instead of declining on all the major items, including social security and various welfare payments.
Grenville, J. A. S. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)
The government has announced radical reforms to the social security system, but they will take time to have an effect.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In present-day Britain the social security system makes use of all three approaches and a variety of methods.
Brown, Muriel & Payne Sarah Introduction to Social Administration in Britain (1990)
First, social security and healthcare systems that emphasise incapacity rather than capacity find it tougher to deliver results for people with long-term or chronic conditions.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)