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social service

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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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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