welfare state
noun
1- a system whereby the state undertakes to protect the health and well-being of its citizens, especially those in financial or social need, by means of grants, pensions, and other benefits. The foundations for the modern welfare state in the UK were laid by the Beveridge Report of 1942; proposals such as the establishment of a National Health Service and the National Insurance Scheme were implemented by the Labour administration in 1948.福利国家制度（一种制度, 根据这种制度, 国家通过提供补助、养老金和其他救济保护其公民, 尤其是需要经济和社会帮助的公民的健康、福利; 英国的现代福利国家制度的基础由1942年的贝弗里奇报告所奠定; 国民保健制度、国民保险制度等建议由工党政府1948年开始实施）。
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- a country practising such a system福利国家。