national assistance

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(in Britain) formerly a weekly allowance paid to certain people by the state to bring their incomes up to minimum levels established by lawNow replaced by: income support

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How to use national assistance in a sentence

There is no doubt that rural communities will respond to national assistance and greatly benefit by it.
A Stake in the Land|Peter Alexander Speek
For long we had no national assistance in our purely commercial seafaring.
Merchantmen-at-Arms|David W. Bone