national insurance
(in Britain) state insurance based on weekly contributions from employees and employers and providing payments to the unemployed, the sick, the retired, etc, as well as medical services: See also social security
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How to use national insurance in a sentence
He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockAt this same period, the spring of 1911, the national insurance Bill was introduced.
The History of the Fabian Society | Edward R. PeaseI suppose national insurance and Land go back to the stable.
In 1911 the situation was suddenly reversed by the passing of the national insurance Act.
Recent Developments in European Thought | VariousIn the centre of that plan stands the policy of national insurance.
Liberalism and the Social Problem | Winston Spencer Churchill
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