social security

social security (uncountable)

1. A system whereby the state either through general or specific taxation provides various benefits to help ensure the wellbeing of its citizens.
2. Those benefits paid under such a system.
3. (US) A specific such social benefit providing income in retirement or disability.

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•   social security on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “social security”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.