social services
welfare activities organized by the state or a local authority and carried out by trained personnel
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How to use social services in a sentence
The four children were taken into custody by the Department of social services.
For a New Democrat, financial services profiting from people on social services is the ultimate in public-private partnerships.
Religious schools are being opened; social services, if rudimentary, are being organized.
The Terrorist Caliph as Nation Builder in Iraq, Syria, and Beyond | Jamie Dettmer | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST[The Department of social services] is saying that she bonded with the foster mom.
I talked about Holy Cross, and the time I spent in Worcester helping welfare recipients navigate job training and social services.
Deficit spending—and always the vital social services for which the government has to spend money.
Space Viking | Henry Beam PiperThe evils attendant upon subsidizing any form of sectarian institution, whatever its social services, are too great to be ignored.
Exempting the Churches | James F. Morton. Jr.The armengol women, marriages, and public festivals start it out again, and on its way back it performs many social services.
Folkways | William Graham SumnerThe wire to the Opera is a still more curious example of the social services the new power is destined to perform.
Curiosities of Civilization | Andrew WynterBut in many ways fortunes appear to grow without social services, and sometimes with social harm.
The Principles of Economics | Frank A. Fetter
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