social insurance en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Government-mandated provision for the unemployed, injured, disabled, or aged, typically funded by a combination of government spending, individual contributions, and employer contributions.
Near-synonym: social security (not always different)
The original Social Security Act (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended, encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs.
2016, Stanley L. Brue, Essentials of Economics, →ISBN:Historical, cultural and institutional attributes influenced Scandinavian political choices for social insurance institutions and welfare policies at the time of the Bismarckian 'conception' of national social insurance on a grand scale in the 1880s.
2013, Maurizio Ferrera, Martin Rhodes, Recasting European Welfare States, →ISBN, page 209:By 1942, Beveridge had been an advocate of social insurance for more than thirty years.
2014, Karel Williams, John Williams, A Beveridge Reader, →ISBN, page 72:Panama unified all social insurances in the 1970s and began a process of integration with the public sector that was later halted.
2008, Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care, →ISBN, page 236:
- (countable, qualifier:broader, uncountable) Any insurance run by a government to cover all citizens, including the aforementioned types as well as health insurance of social type (socialized medicine).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| social insurances | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (11)
ja 社会保険 (government-mandated provision) · vi bảo hiểm xã hội (government-mandated provision) · ro asigurări sociale (government-mandated provision) · cmn 社會保險 /社会保险 (government-mandated provision) · ko 사회보험 (government-mandated provision) · id asuransi sosial (government-mandated provision) · pl ubezpieczenie społeczne (government-mandated provision) · de Sozialversicherung (government-mandated provision) · fi sosiaalivakuutus (government-mandated provision) · el κοινωνική ασφάλιση (government-mandated provision) · ms insurans sosial (government-mandated provision)