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social work
noun
- organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of people in poverty, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
social work
noun
- any of various social services designed to alleviate the conditions of the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children
Derived Forms
- social worker, noun
Other Words From
- social worker noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of social work1
Example Sentences
The author, Dr. David Ribner, has a doctorate in social work and is an ordained Rabbi.
Matul recently started looking at colleges and hopes to study social work or public policy when she saves up enough money.
My father expected me to go to college, and he was thrilled when I earned my Master's of Social Work degree.
Financial aid and a night job as an office cleaner carried me through, and at 21, I graduated with a degree in social work.
At university, she studied social work—more useful in wartime, she thought, than pediatrics.
Possibly no social work in America is more sanely constructive than that of the playground movement.
You see my only social work is to rejoice in the labors of others, while I live in luxurious remoteness from all turmoil.
The 350 Queen does all the social work, and she does it admirably.
It is in these local groups perhaps that some of the best experimental social work may be done.
The working woman is in fact beginning to show powers, hitherto unsuspected, of social work and political action.
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