Food stamps
Welfare and food stamps are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Welfare" instead a noun phrase "Food stamps".
Welfare
Welfare noun - The state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success.
Food stamps and welfare are semantically related. You can use "Food stamps" instead a noun "Welfare".
Nearby Word: welfarism
Both terms in one sentence
- People that live on food stamps or welfare checks are also viewed as worse since they're mooching off the taxpayers' money and refusing to better themselves or their families while they spend the public's cash on big screen televisions.
Source: Acceptable Lifestyle Targets - In ancient times, if you were poor to the point of starvation, you couldn't go down to the government's social welfare agency to get "food stamps" or the like.
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I was on food stamps, I was on welfare, and nobody ever helped me!
Source: Series / Parks and Recreation
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