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词汇 welfare-check
释义 welfare check
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈwel.feə ˌtʃek/ us /ˈwel.fer ˌtʃek/

welfare checknoun[C] (PAYMENT)


US(UK & Australian English & Canadian Englishwelfare cheque)
a payment made by the government or an organization to a person who needs help because they do not have enough money: 社会福利支票(政府或组织向需要经济援助的人支付的款项)
The $300 welfare check she gets in the mail each month helps her raise her baby daughter.她每月收到300美元的社会福利支票来帮助她抚养年幼的女儿。
He couldn't find a job, taking a welfare check every month.他找不到工作,每个月都会收到社会福利支票。
Together we ended the old welfare system. And we're now replacing welfare checks with paychecks.
An ineffective job guarantee that amounts to a welfare check plus onerous work requirements would be bad policy.
Today, about 24,000 poor Louisiana families get welfare checks - down from nearly 73,000 in 1996.
The family, which refused to take food stamps and welfare checks, lived on donations.
She left Halifax for Toronto, where she is sleeping on a friend's floor until she gets her first welfare cheque.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Social security & state benefits
AFDC
anti-welfare
basic income
be on reliefidiom
benefit
family allowance
family credit
giro
housing benefit
income support
means test
sickness benefit
sign (something) off
social security
social welfare
UBI
unemployment
unemployment benefit
welfare
welfare state

welfare checknoun[C] (VISIT)


mainly US
a visit made by a police officer or other official person to someone's home in order to check that they are safe and well and do not have any problems: (由警察或其他官方职员到家检查家中人员是否安全或出现问题)安危检查
Newspapers reported that police were conducting a welfare check on the singer when they found his body.报纸报道,警方在对这位歌手进行安危检查时发现了他的尸体。
Law enforcement authorities said they received a call at 1:19 a.m. Sunday from a man asking for a welfare check on his two children, a 7-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl.
Whenever the police contacted the women for a welfare check, they consistently said that they were happy and were living with the man of their own free will.
We have been evacuating people who wanted to get out, protecting properties from further flooding and carrying out welfare checks for those who chose to remain behind.
You can see that the homes are completely submerged in water. What this crew is doing is knocking on doors, doing welfare checks and making sure people are OK.
While officers were conducting a welfare check on the children before the mother's arrest, the family's dogs attacked a neighbor.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Medical treatment: treating & caring for people
aggressively
bed blocker
bed-blocking
bring
bring someone around
clinic
health navigator
health tourism
keep your/an eye on something/someoneidiom
logroll
logrolling
nurse
prep
reablement
referral
rehospitalization
rehospitalize
respite care
self-care
tend

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