Welfare vs Perk - What's the difference?
welfare | perk |
(uncountable) Health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect.
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, title= (uncountable, chiefly, US) Various forms of financial aid provided by the government to those who are in need of it (abbreviated form of Welfare assistance ).
To become more lively or enthusiastic.
To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
* Barrow
To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
As nouns the difference between welfare and perk
is that welfare is (uncountable) health, safety, happiness and prosperity; well-being in any respect while perk is perquisite or perk can be a percolator, particularly of coffee.As a verb perk is
shortened form of percolate or perk can be to become more lively or enthusiastic or perk can be (dated) to peer; to look inquisitively.As an adjective perk is
smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.welfare
English
Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare . Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Synonyms
* income support, public assistance, social securityAntonyms
* evilfare * illfare * woefare * wofareExternal links
* * *See also
* * ----perk
English
Etymology 1
From perquisite, by abbreviation.Alternative forms
* (l) (less common)Etymology 2
From percolate (verb) and percolator (noun), by abbreviation.Etymology 3
The origin is .Verb
(en verb)- to perk over them
- to perk''' the ears; to '''perk up one's head
- (Cowper)
- (Sherburne)