welfare state

英 [ˌwelfeə ˈsteɪt]

美 [ˌwelfer ˈsteɪt]

n.  福利制度(由政府向有需要的人提供各种免费服务，如医疗、失业救济金、对老人的照顾等); 福利国家

经济

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牛津词典

noun

• 福利制度（由政府向有需要的人提供各种免费服务，如医疗、失业救济金、对老人的照顾等）
  a system by which the government provides a range of free services to people who need them, for example medical care, money for people without work, care for old people, etc.
• 福利国家
  a country that has such a system

柯林斯词典

• (英国等国的)福利国家(制度)
  In Britain and some other countries, thewelfare stateis a system in which the government provides free social services such as health and education and gives money to people when they are unable to work, for example because they are old, unemployed, or sick.

英英释义

noun

• a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

双语例句

• The insurance industry sound development benefits economic growth and improves the social welfare state.
  保险业的健康发展有助于加快经济增长并改善社会福利状态；
• Language aside, the history, structure and politics of each country's welfare state are different.
  撇开语言不谈，各个国家福利制度的历史、体制和手段各不相同。
• They equated socialism with the welfare state.
  他们把社会主义与福利国家相提并论。
• The reigning ideology favored more government intervention into the economy and an expanding welfare state.
  当时的执政理念倾向于让政府更多地干预经济并扩大国家福利。
• The welfare state has run up against a brick wall of economic reality and fiscal book-keeping.
  现在，福利国家已经撞上由经济现实和财政状况筑起的南墙。
• On Welfare State Policy of Attlee Government in Britain
  试论英国艾德礼政府的福利国家政策
• And all this has been combined with a high level of social protection and a generous welfare state.
  而且这一切还暴在政府提供高水平社会保障和丰厚福利的情况下出现的。
• The supposed benefits of a progressive welfare state.
  进步福利国家的所谓“福利”。
• Unemployment places a heavy burden on the welfare state.
  失业给福利国家增加了沉重的负担。
• Migrant workers are not a drain on the welfare state and pay more in taxes than the value of public services they receive, a trade union study concludes today.
  英国职工大会（tradesunioncongress）今日公布的一项调查显示，移民工人并非一个福利国家财富外流的渠道，他们缴纳的税收超过了自己获得公共服务的价值。