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PRONUNCIATION OF WELFARE CHECK

welfare check  [ˈwɛlfɛə tʃɛk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WELFARE CHECK

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verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Welfare check is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WELFARE CHECK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of welfare check in the English dictionary

The definition of welfare check in the dictionary is a social security payment.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WELFARE CHECK


aircheck
ˈɛəˌtʃɛk
backcheck
ˈbækˌtʃɛk
bodycheck
ˈbɒdɪˌtʃɛk
check
tʃɛk
cheque
tʃɛk
countercheck
ˈkaʊntəˌtʃɛk
crosscheck
ˌkrɒsˈtʃɛk
Czech
tʃɛk
eurocheque
ˈjʊərəʊˌtʃɛk
forecheck
ˈfɔːˌtʃɛk
hookcheck
ˈhʊkˌtʃɛk
namecheck
ˈneɪmˌtʃɛk
overcheck
ˈəʊvəˌtʃɛk
precheck
priːˈtʃɛk
recheck
riːˈtʃɛk
uncheck
ʌnˈtʃɛk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WELFARE CHECK

weldmesh
Weldon
weldor
welfare
welfare benefits
welfare centre
welfare economics
welfare hotel
welfare mother
welfare officer
welfare payments
welfare rights
welfare services
welfare state
welfare work
welfare worker
welfarism
welfarist
welfaristic
welfarite

WORDS THAT END LIKE WELFARE CHECK

background check
baggage check
cashier´s check
credit check
dog´s-tooth check
double-check
gut check
health check
heck
in check
parity check
rain check
reality check
security check
sound check
speed check
spellcheck
spot check
spot-check
take a rain check
time check

Synonyms and antonyms of welfare check in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «welfare check» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WELFARE CHECK

Find out the translation of welfare check to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of welfare check from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «welfare check» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

福利支票
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cheque de asistencia social
570 millions of speakers

English

welfare check
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कल्याण की जांच
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الاختيار الرفاه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

проверка благосостояния
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

verificação de bem-estar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কল্যাণ পরীক্ষা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chèque d´aide sociale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cek kebajikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wohl Check
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

福祉チェック
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

복지 체크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cek kesejahteraan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kiểm tra phúc lợi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நல காசோலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कल्याण तपासणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Refah kontrolü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

controllo del benessere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kontrola dobrostanu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перевірка добробуту
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

verificare bunăstare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έλεγχος πρόνοιας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

welsyn tjek
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

välfärd kryss
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

velferdssjekk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of welfare check

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WELFARE CHECK»

The term «welfare check» is regularly used and occupies the 87.644 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WELFARE CHECK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about welfare check

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WELFARE CHECK»

Discover the use of welfare check in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to welfare check and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Welfare: The Political Economy of Welfare Reform in the ...
The average female- headed family with one, two, or three small children could have its welfare check cut by more than 30 percent." The losers in Carter's program would be the aged, the blind, the disabled, and mothers with small children.
Martin Anderson
2
Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United ...
Mrs. Sylvester Smith, a recipient in Alabama, was denied her welfare check for refusing to prove that she did not have sex with a man. The Foundation and the Center argued that the substitute-father law in Alabama violated due process, the  ...
Premilla Nadasen, 2014
3
Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization ...
Though it was a week after the first of the month, she still had not received her welfare check and had no money to pay for another night at the cheap hotel where she and her children had slept the night before. She eagerly accepted the offer of ...
Kaaryn S. Gustafson, 2011
4
Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century: A Handbook of ...
(Edin and Lein [1997] discuss the number of welfare-reliant mothers who have resorted to prostitution and drug trafficking because the welfare check was not enough for the family to survive. Men in this study also told the same story about ...
Gerald P. Mallon, Peg McCartt Hess, 2005
5
Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure
Therefore, when someone makes a request of the police to check on the well- being of a person it is expected that police officers have the responsibility and obligation to make the welfare check. Likewise, this court wants to encourage the  ...
Carrie E. Garrow, Sarah Deer, 2004
6
Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to ...
Star Parker tells the inspirational story of how she turned her life around from a world of drugs, crime, and welfare to success as an entrepreneur, founder of the Coalition on Urban Affairs, and spokesperson for African-American ...
Star Parker, 1998
7
Everything You Need to Know If Your Family is on Welfare
For example, assume your family receives a welfare check for $377 a month. If you or your parent has a job that pays $600 a month, the welfare check will be reduced by $200. You would now receive $177 per month from welfare. With the  ...
Arlene Erlbach, 1997
8
Welfare to Work: Most A. F. D. C. Training Programs Not ...
Based on your program's experience with OJT, how effective, if at all, do you think OJT is in moving recipients off welfare? (CHECK ONE RESPONSE.) n = 375 62. In your opinion, how much, if at all, does the OJT subsidy increase or decrease ...
DIANE Publishing Company, 1995
9
Faces of Poverty : Portraits of Women and Children on ...
When a welfare recipient works (and tells the welfare department about it), she is not allowed to keep both her earnings and her welfare check. Welfare is not designed to provide a guaranteed base of income. Instead, as women work, their  ...
Berkeley Jill Duerr Berrick Director of the Center for Social Services Research and the Child Welfare Research Cener at the School of Social Welfare University of California, 1995
10
Federal Hiring from the Welfare Rolls: Congressional Hearings
Welfare should be based on "pay-after- performance": Recipients will not receive the welfare check until after they have performed work or other required activity. If they fail to perform the required number of hours of activity, the welfare check ...
John L. Mica, 1999

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WELFARE CHECK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term welfare check is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Kansas Tattoo Parlors Say Nobody's Getting Inked on Welfare Checks
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed into law Thursday some of the country's strictest prohibitions on where welfare money can and can't be spent. «TIME, Apr 15»
2
Kansas and Missouri are right. Welfare should cover only the basics.
Growing up, I saw firsthand how my mother did her best to carefully stretch welfare checks to cover the basics: housing, food, clothing and transportation. «Washington Post, Apr 15»
3
Police performing welfare check on elderly Army veteran end up …
When James Howard Allen's family members asked police to stop by his home for a welfare check on Saturday, they were hoping authorities could help ensure ... «Washington Post, Feb 15»
4
1-in-30 Ohioans received a welfare check in 2012, Census report …
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- About 3.3 percent of Ohioans received welfare checks at some point in 2012, up from 2.9 percent in 2000, the year the state began limiting ... «The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, Sep 14»
5
Revealed: 'Scottish aristocrats' who took $165000 in welfare checks
A wealthy Minnesota couple who've been on the lam since they were accused of bilking two states out of nearly $200K in welfare benefits had an astounding $3 ... «Daily Mail, Mar 14»
6
Every State Will Cover Welfare Checks In Shutdown Except Arizona …
Most states distribute benefits on the first of the month. But “[t]he state stopped payments averaging $207 a week to 5,200 families eligible for Temporary ... «ThinkProgress, Oct 13»
7
Bill Clinton's defense of Obama's new welfare rules
The ad further states that “under Obama's plan, you wouldn't have to work and you wouldn't have to train for a job. They just send you your welfare check.”. «Washington Post, Sep 12»
8
States Adding Drug Test as Hurdle for Welfare
In Florida, people receiving cash assistance through welfare have had to pay for ... three children on a monthly welfare check of $342, plus $642 in food stamps. «New York Times, Oct 11»

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