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public assistance

[ puhb-lik uh-sis-tuhns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

government aid to poor, disabled, or aged people or to dependent children, as financial assistance or food stamps.

public assistance

First recorded in 1900–05

I worked in CHA housing projects for five years, processing public assistance applications.

I worked in CHA Housing Projects for five years, processing public assistance applications.

Voth asked if the ATF could arrest him for fraudulently accepting public assistance when he was spending such huge sums.

In the first place, he was received very coldly at the Office of Public Assistance.

This vast community of indigence and madness is under the control of the general administration of Public Assistance.

I demand that this petition be referred to the Committee of Public Assistance to be promptly dealt with.

Still, the following entries prove that occasionally incipient Cambridge men received public assistance.

In proportion as we realize the force of this argument, we reverse our view as to the nature of public assistance in such a case.

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