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Beveridge plan

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noun

  1. the plan for comprehensive social insurance, proposed by Sir William Beveridge in Great Britain in 1941.

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The new Beveridge plan starts from a premise familiar in the U.S.

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The Creator of the Beveridge plan was last week the object of vast adulation.

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