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social welfare (in Britain) a payment made by a local authority in the form of a rent rebate to a council tenant or a rent allowance to a private tenant

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Words nearby housing benefit

housewrecker, house wren, housey-housey, housing, housing association, housing benefit, housing development, housing estate, housing project, housing scheme, housing start

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How to use housing benefit in a sentence

Two-thirds of those who likely to benefit from the new policy are Mexican.
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Not for the benefit of the harasser, of course, but for your own safety.
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They selected an “easy mark” who turned out to be an off-duty NYC Housing Authority cop named James Carragher.
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He first rose to prominence as a lawyer in Queens, who settled a boiling racial dispute over public housing in Forest Hills.
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When the audience laughed he added that, “They think freedom would benefit them but they were cheated.”
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As he walked back to his hotel, his head was full of plans for the girl's transient pleasure and lasting benefit.
Rosemary in Search of a Father|C. N. Williamson
Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, November 3, 1894|Various
These oral inanities only served to make Lyn give me the benefit of a look of amused wonder.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
Once he permitted himself a digression, that he might point a moral for the benefit of his servant.
St. Martin's Summer|Rafael Sabatini
This lesson in figures is given for the benefit of those who have not yet mastered Numeric Thinking.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)