| NOUN | act | social service, welfare work | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
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| Meaning | An organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society. | |
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| Synonym | welfare work | |
| Narrower | casework | Close sociological study of a maladjusted / maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment |
| social work | Any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children | |
| Broader | work | Activity directed toward making or doing something |
| Spanish | asistencia social, servicio social | |
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