national insurance

noun

1. See social security
   (in Britain) state insurance based on weekly contributions from employees and employers and providing payments to the unemployed, the sick, the retired, etc, as well as medical services See also social security

Example Sentences

He has come to believe in such things as old age pensions and national insurance.

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At this same period, the spring of 1911, the National Insurance Bill was introduced.

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I suppose National Insurance and Land go back to the stable.

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In 1911 the situation was suddenly reversed by the passing of the National Insurance Act.

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In the centre of that plan stands the policy of national insurance.

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