welfare states

noun

plural of welfare state
as in client states

Related Words

Relevance

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare states
  1. states
  2. settlements
  3. nations
  4. lands
  5. countries
  6. provinces
  7. mandates
Noun
  • The governor of New York on Monday declared a disaster emergency because of measles cases in neighboring states and in rural areas of New York.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • If states follow suit by waiving state taxes, the White House suggests truckers could save more than $100 per fill-up.
    — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of states
Noun
  • Large settlements often attract phishing attempts because scammers know people are looking for claim information.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • That reporting revealed that the state frequently seizes money from legal settlements stemming from medical malpractice, police brutality, workplace injury and other wrongful death lawsuits.
    — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of settlements
Noun
  • Meanwhile, trade barriers put in place by the US and other nations are affecting the price of goods from many countries.
    — Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Other nations, including neighbor South Africa, also issue annual quotas for the hunting of elephants.
    — Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of nations
Noun
  • North Carolina Sports Betting Laws and Timeline North Carolina sports betting first started gaining traction around 2019 when tribal lands accepted sports betting.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2026
  • This does not include lands subject to significant extractive uses, like logging or mining, or disruptive recreation activities, like OHV off-road driving.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of lands
Noun
  • Between 2005 and 2024, Chinese firms received, on average, three to eight times more government support than firms in OECD countries.
    — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Canada dials up trade diversification efforts As the US hosts G20 trade ministers in Wisconsin, Canada is taking the opportunity to strengthen its ties to other countries.
    — semafor.com, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of countries
Noun
  • Kabul and the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan said the strikes in Helmand and Kunar provinces had killed at least 10 civilians, most of them children.
    — MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Manak noted that Canadian provinces banned US alcohol only in response to threatened US tariffs.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of provinces
Noun
  • Justifying the use of force on their campuses, schools primarily deferred to just this idea of protocol, citing arcane policy mandates to disband encampments and occupations so that academic production could resume its flow.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Enforcing rigid standards prematurely—as early Space Development Agency (SDA) mandates demonstrated—can freeze sub-optimal designs and throttle rapid tech iteration.
    — Rohit Jha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of mandates
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

welfare state
welfare states
welkin
See all Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Welfare states.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20states. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

Copy Citation
Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

More from Merriam-Webster

Word of the Day

Listen to the pronunciation of discreet

See Definitions and Examples »

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

More Commonly Mispronounced Words

Merriam-Webster’s Great Big List of Words You Love to Hate

Is it 'nerve-racking' or 'nerve-wracking'?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?
See More

Popular in Wordplay

See More

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List

9 Words That Sound Like Insults But Aren't

Even More Bird Names that Sound Like Insults (and Sometimes Are)

12 Lovely and Unusual Words for the Natural World
See More

Popular

See More

Do You Need a New Language Peeve?

7 Great Ways to Say 'Great'

The Longest Long Words List
See More

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
The Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
name tags
Words Named After People Quiz Find out who’s behind "leotard," "morphine," an...
See All