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Social service   /sˈoʊʃəl sˈərvəs/   Listen
Social service

noun
1.
An organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society.  Synonym: welfare work.






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"Social service" Quotes from Famous Books



... she hadn't heard.] After exhausting the morbid thrills of social service work on New York's East Side—how they must have hated you, by the way, the poor that you made so much poorer in their own eyes!—you are now bent on making your slumming international. Well, I hope ...
— The Hairy Ape • Eugene O'Neill

... government opened up to twenty-three geisha houses for the entertainment of soldiers who were far from home in the capital and had no possibility for other amusements. Public baths had existed already some centuries ago; now Buddhist temples opened public baths as social service. ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... Jerusalem, when I myself followed it thither; and all I heard bore testimony to this truth so far as it goes; the sense among the natives themselves of something magic in our machinery, and that in the main a white magic; the sense of all the more solid sort of social service that belongs rather to the West than to the East. When the fountain first flowed in the Holy City in the mountains, and Father Waggett blessed it for the use of men, it is said that an old Arab standing by said, in the plain and powerful phraseology of his people: ...
— The New Jerusalem • G. K. Chesterton



Words linked to "Social service" :   work, casework, social work



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