social services

English

Noun

social services pl (plural only)

1. A government-run program meant to benefit society as a whole, with a particular view to the less economically fortunate.
   • 2024 October 23, Jacob Oller, “Clay weepy Memoir Of A Snail crawls through a gauntlet of misery”, in AV Club‎^[1]:

     Grace and her twin brother Gilbert (Kodi Smit-McPhee) lost their mother during birth, and their alcoholic father during their hardscrabble childhood. The pair are divided up by social services, Grace sent to one side of the continent, Gilbert to the other.

Translations

program

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會服務 / 社会服务 (zh) (shèhuì fúwù), 社会服务 (zh) (shèhuì fúwù)

• Finnish: sosiaalipalvelu
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sozialleistung (de) f
• Swedish: socialtjänst (sv) c