Usually means: Financial aid provided by government.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. public assistance: Merriam-Webster
  2. public assistance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. public assistance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. public assistance: Collins English Dictionary
  5. public assistance: Vocabulary.com
  6. public assistance: Wiktionary
  7. public assistance: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. public-assistance, public assistance: Dictionary.com
  9. Public assistance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. public assistance: FreeDictionary.org
  11. public assistance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. public assistance: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public assistance: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. public assistance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (public assistance)

noun:  (law, public policy) Payment made to disadvantaged persons by government in order to alleviate the burdens of poverty, unemployment, disability, old age, etc.
noun:  government subsidy

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