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outdoor relief

British  

noun

  1. another name for out-relief

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Shandas and his family ended up spending hours bobbing in a local river — the only outdoor relief they could find.

From Washington Post Jul. 22, 2021

Shandas and his family ended up spending hours bobbing in a local river – the only outdoor relief they could find.

From Seattle Times Jul. 22, 2021

Under a system called "outdoor relief," they were auctioned into the service of those who would support them at the lowest cost to the community.

From Time Magazine Archive

That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes."

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of the figures just examined may have involved cases of outdoor relief.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

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