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- noun Plural form of
welfare .
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Examples
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Big government, high tax and widespread welfares are awaiting for every taxpayer!
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How many individual welfares does it take to make a general welfare of the United States?
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Instead, I tend to go with a utilitarian summing of welfares, and combine that with the rather obvious notion that the diminishing value of marginal returns applies strongly to income.
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But this visit of mine to Australia is one other indication, particularly to the students of India, that I have come here to get assurances, at the highest level at - in Australia - so that every Indian student, his welfares, is protected by Government of Australia.
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WHITFIELD: A lawyer says two boys taken by authorities in a raid on a Texas polygamist compound are unaccounted for, but child welfares says no children have been lost.
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As a military officer, I had two responsibilities: to accomplish my mission and to look out for the welfares of the Marines in my charge.
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The seller was happy with his sale, the purchasers were pleased with their purchase, and the difference would go to support the city in the form of welfares and grafts anyway.
The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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The seller was happy with his sale, the purchasers were pleased with their purchase, and the difference would go to support the city in the form of welfares and grafts anyway.
The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983
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The seller was happy with his sale, the purchasers were pleased with their purchase, and the difference would go to support the city in the form of welfares and grafts anyway.
Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972
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God on this day, to sanction this humble blessing by one from on high, and that the desire for your future welfares, was the very last desire he had satisfied in this life and now, my children, I will leave you, I am tired and worn out, and would like to rest.
Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense [pseud.] Vera
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