Definitions of welfare

1. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need

2. Condition of health; prosperity; happiness.

3. State of faring or doing well: freedom from any calamity, etc.: enjoyment of health, etc.: prosperity.

4. Enjoyment of health, prosperity, & c.

5. The state of faring well; prosperity.

6. Exemption from misfortune, sickness, calamity, or evil; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; prosperity; wellbeing: applied to states, the ordinary blessings of society and civil government.

7. State of doing well; prosperity; wellbeing.