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social insurance

any insurance program undertaken by a government to provide income or payments to persons who are unemployed, disabled, elderly, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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