welfare department

collocation in English

meaningsofwelfareanddepartment

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welfare
noun[U]
uk
/ˈwel.feər/us
/ˈwel.fer/
help given, especially by the state or an organization, to people who need it, especially because they do not have ...
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department
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/dɪˈpɑːt.mənt/us
/dɪˈpɑːrt.mənt/
a part of an organization such as a school, business, or government that deals with a particular area of study ...
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(Definition ofwelfareanddepartmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Enforcement is the responsibility of 98 district education inspectors assisted by socialwelfaredepartmentstaff.
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The citywelfaredepartmenthad no difficulty in coping with the problem.
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The service hospitalswelfaredepartmenthas trained personnel to deal with medically related problems.
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Nobody is suggesting putting the medical services which do welfare work under the newwelfaredepartment.
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Such people may well come from the children's department, or from thewelfaredepartment.
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Very many of the families coming to thewelfaredepartmentare in this condition.
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The head of thewelfaredepartmentwas demoted to number three in the hierarchy.
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The staff argue that it would be better to appoint this person not to the training centre but to thewelfaredepartment.
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If there were a regularwelfaredepartment, it would help, if only indirectly, in rousing the public to some interest in the subject.
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For example, they use doctors wives and people who are prepared to undertake part-time work within thewelfaredepartmentfor which they do not need specialised training.
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They will link up very closely with thewelfaredepartment, as they have done in the past.
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So rich is thewelfaredepartment, however, in its personnel, that we hope that a proper appointment will be made.
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When decisions were made to shut down the military hospitals, there was no provision for welfare and thewelfaredepartmentwas never consulted.
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If he wants extra help in the home or special care, or if he is unable to look after himself, he has to apply to thewelfaredepartment.
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These issues could well be contained by affording thewelfaredepartmentthe appropriate terms and conditions and equipment to continue to perform its vital role.
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In addition, the hospitalswelfaredepartmentis still fighting for adequate office space in which to operate.
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On the administrative side, one branch of the safety, health andwelfaredepartmentis concerned solely with health matters.
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Within six months of this disgraceful operation the senior welfare officer and his deputy left the council's employment, and later several other senior officers in thewelfaredepartmentalso left.
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Is he further aware of the fact that under that reorganisation scheme each children's department as such was abolished and merged ino a general socialwelfaredepartment?
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The education psychologists and psychiatrists, and the psychiatric social workers, will still be independent; they are not being put under the newwelfaredepartment.
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