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social service

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social service
n.
1. Organized efforts to advance human welfare; social work.
2. Services, such as free school lunches, provided by a government for its disadvantaged citizens. Often used in the plural.
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Noun1.social service - an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society
welfare work
work - activity directed toward making or doing something; "she checked several points needing further work"
social work - any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children
casework - close sociological study of a maladjusted person or family for diagnosis and treatment


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