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noun

(usually initial capital letters) a program of old-age, unemployment, health, disability, and survivors insurance maintained by the U.S. federal government through compulsory payments by specific employer and employee groups.

the theory or practice of providing economic security and social welfare for the individual through government programs maintained by moneys from public taxation.

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Origin of social security

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby social security

social psychology, social realism, Social Register, social science, social secretary, social security, Social Security Act, Social Security Administration, Social Security System, social service, social services

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How to use social security in a sentence

Prior to working with us, the law firm had another company set up dozens of boilerplate service area pages targeting social security disability terms.
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Within weeks of doing this, my colleague Carrie Hill saw big increases in their local pack rankings for “social security disability attorney.”
Case study: More content is not always better for ranking in Google|Joy Hawkins|April 30, 2021|Search Engine Land
Because the pages weren’t adding value to the site, mainly due to points three and four listed above, we made the decision to delete them all and redirect them to the main pages on the site that were about social security disability.
Case study: More content is not always better for ranking in Google|Joy Hawkins|April 30, 2021|Search Engine Land
Daniel Hanks, 74, a veteran private investigator also known as “Danno,” told The Washington Post in a phone interview that he improperly accessed details about Meghan, including her social security number, as well as details on people in her life.
Private investigator says he skirted laws to get info on Meghan Markle, sell it to the Sun tabloid|Karla Adam|March 19, 2021|Washington Post

One woman at the Rendezvous talks about spending her entire life working and raising her children, only to discover when she reached her 60s that her social security benefit was a whopping $550 a month.
Nomadland turns American iconography inside out|Alissa Wilkinson|February 19, 2021|Vox
This is a blow against freedom of speech, we were told, by the likes of Homeland Security chief Jeh Johnson.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A Charlie Hebdo reporter said that security provision had been relaxed in the last month or so and the police car disappeared.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
It opens with Huckabee's dramatic recollection of going through security at the airport.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!|Olivia Nuzzi|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Security officials told Agence France-Presse that the gas station manager said he had recognized the two men.
France Mourns—and Hunts|Nico Hines, Christopher Dickey|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
“There is a heavy security presence but nothing has changed,” agrees Father Javier.
Mexico’s Priests Are Marked for Murder|Jason McGahan|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
To others the fierce desire for social justice obliterates all fear of a general catastrophe.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
And our views of poverty and social betterment, or what is possible and what is not, are still largely conditioned by it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

British Dictionary definitions for social security

social security

noun

public provision for the economic, and sometimes social, welfare of the aged, unemployed, etc, esp through pensions and other monetary assistance

(often capitals) a government programme designed to provide such assistance

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