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child endowment

British

noun

a social security payment for dependent children

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Yet on the other hand they supported—and won—national "child endowment" because although fundamentally only a palliative this at least strengthened the family by supplementing wages and helping parents towards ownership and property.

From Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Ward, Maisie

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