'welfare state' definitions:
Definition of 'welfare state'
From: WordNet
noun
A government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
Synonyms of 'welfare state'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absolute monarchy,
- ADC,
- aristocracy,
- autarchy,
- autocracy,
- autonomy,
- child welfare,
- coalition government,
- colonialism,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- constitutional government,
- constitutional monarchy,
- cradle-to-grave security,
- democracy,
- dictatorship,
- dominion rule,
- duarchy,
- duumvirate,
- dyarchy,
- federal government,
- federation,
- feudal system,
- garrison state,
- gerontocracy,
- guaranteed annual income,
- guaranteed income,
- health insurance,
- heteronomy,
- hierarchy,
- hierocracy,
- home rule,
- limited monarchy,
- martial law,
- Medicaid,
- Medicare,
- meritocracy,
- militarism,
- military government,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- monarchy,
- neocolonialism,
- ochlocracy,
- old-age assistance,
- oligarchy,
- pantisocracy,
- patriarchate,
- patriarchy,
- police state,
- public assistance,
- public welfare,
- pure democracy,
- regency,
- relief,
- representative democracy,
- representative government,
- republic,
- self-determination,
- self-government,
- sickness insurance,
- social democracy,
- social insurance,
- social security,
- social service,
- social welfare,
- social work,
- socialized medicine,
- state medicine,
- stratocracy,
- technocracy,
- thearchy,
- theocracy,
- totalitarian government,
- totalitarian regime,
- triarchy,
- triumvirate,
- tyranny,
- unemployment compensation,
- unemployment insurance,
- welfare,
- welfare capitalism,
- welfare payments,
- welfare statism,
- welfare work,
- welfarism,
- womb-to-tomb security