welfare state

English

Etymology

Compound of welfare +‎ state.

Noun

welfare state (plural welfare states)

1. A social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens, providing health care, education, unemployment compensation and social security.
   • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎^[1], volume 188, number 23, page 19:

     In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]

2. A country in which such a system operates.

Derived terms

• welfare stater
• welfare statism

Translations

social system in which the state takes overall responsibility for the welfare of its citizens

• Afrikaans: welvaartstaat (af)
• Azerbaijani: rifah dövləti
• Bengali: কল্যাণ রাষ্ট্র (kollan raśṭro)
• Catalan: estat del benestar m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福利國家 / 福利国家 (zh) (fúlì guójiā)

• Czech: sociální stát m
• Danish: velfærdssamfund n, velfærdsstat c
• Dutch: verzorgingsstaat (nl) m, welvaartsstaat (nl) m (chiefly Belgium)
• Finnish: hyvinvointivaltio (fi)
• French: État-providence (fr) m
• German: Wohlfahrtsstaat (de) m
• Greek: κράτος πρόνοιας (el) n (krátos prónoias)
• Hungarian: jóléti állam
• Indonesian: negara kesejahteraan (id)
• Italian: Stato sociale m, Stato assistenziale m
• Japanese: 福祉国家 (ja) (ふくしこっか, fukushi kokka)
• Korean: 복지국가(福祉國家) (ko) (bokjigukga)
• Macedonian: соција́лна др́жава f (socijálna dŕžava)
• Malay: negara kebajikan
• Malayalam: ക്ഷേമരാഷ്ട്രം (kṣēmarāṣṭraṁ)
• Maori: whenua tokoora
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: velferdsstat (no) m

  Nynorsk: velferdsstat m

• Persian: دولت رفاه
• Polish: państwo opiekuńcze n
• Portuguese: estado de bem-estar m, estado de bem-estar social m, estado assistencial m
• Russian: социа́льное госуда́рство n (sociálʹnoje gosudárstvo)
• Spanish: estado de bienestar m, estado del bienestar m, estado benefactor m
• Swedish: välfärdsstat (sv) c, folkhem (sv) n
• Vietnamese: nhà nước phúc lợi
• Welsh: gwladwriaeth les f
• West Frisian: fersoargingssteat c

country in which such a system operates

• Afrikaans: welvaartstaat (af)
• Azerbaijani: rifah dövləti
• Bengali: কল্যাণ রাষ্ট্র (kollan raśṭro)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 福利國家 / 福利国家 (zh) (fúlì guójiā)

• Czech: sociální stát m
• Danish: velfærdsstat c
• Dutch: verzorgingsstaat (nl) m, welvaartsstaat (nl) m (chiefly Belgium)
• Finnish: hyvinvointivaltio (fi)
• French: État-providence (fr) m
• German: Wohlfahrtsstaat (de) m
• Hungarian: jóléti állam
• Indonesian: negara kesejahteraan (id)
• Japanese: 福祉国家 (ja) (ふくしこっか, fukushi kokka)
• Korean: 복지국가(福祉國家) (ko) (bokjigukga)
• Macedonian: соција́лна др́жава f (socijálna dŕžava)
• Malay: negara kebajikan
• Malayalam: ക്ഷേമരാഷ്ട്രം (kṣēmarāṣṭraṁ)
• Norwegian: velferdsstat (no)
• Persian: دولت رفاه
• Polish: państwo opiekuńcze n
• Portuguese: estado de bem-estar m, estado de bem-estar social m, estado assistencial m
• Russian: социа́льное госуда́рство n (sociálʹnoje gosudárstvo)
• Spanish: estado del bienestar m, estado benefactor
• Swedish: välfärdsstat (sv) c
• Vietnamese: nhà nước phúc lợi
• Welsh: gwladwriaeth les f
• West Frisian: fersoargingssteat c