"welfare bum" meaning in English

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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "corporate welfare bum"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971 June 22, “New Welfare Plan”, in Palm Beach Post, US, retrieved 2015-11-09, page A14",
          "text": "The program also can shatter once and for all that \"welfare bum\" myth that has served as an excuse to avoid obligation and sacrifice to aid unfortunate people.",
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          "ref": "1982 May 25, “Making Welfare Work”, in Schenectady Gazette, US, retrieved 2015-11-09, page 26",
          "text": "Welfare has long been scorned by those who see only the \"welfare bum,\" able to work but preferring to sit home and collect a government check.",
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          "ref": "1986 November 14, Jacquie Miller, “Single mothers use song, skit to plead for higher family benefits”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09, page 26",
          "text": "Marin, who receives $576 a month in family benefits, says she has to get groceries from a food bank every month to survive. . . . \"The other kids tell my kid: ‘Your mother's a welfare bum.’\"",
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          "ref": "2014 December 1, Larissa Burnouf, “Saskatoon landlord tells First Nations woman to kill herself when applying for apartment”, in APTN News, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09",
          "text": "He also told Sewap to “get a job and stop being a welfare bum.”",
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        "A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work."
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          "public assistance",
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          "lazy",
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        "(informal, Canada and US, derogatory) A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work."
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        {
          "word": "welfare Cadillac"
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        {
          "word": "welfare queen"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "welfare parasite"
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  "word": "welfare bum"
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      "word": "corporate welfare bum"
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      "word": "welfare Cadillac"
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          "ref": "1971 June 22, “New Welfare Plan”, in Palm Beach Post, US, retrieved 2015-11-09, page A14",
          "text": "The program also can shatter once and for all that \"welfare bum\" myth that has served as an excuse to avoid obligation and sacrifice to aid unfortunate people.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "1982 May 25, “Making Welfare Work”, in Schenectady Gazette, US, retrieved 2015-11-09, page 26",
          "text": "Welfare has long been scorned by those who see only the \"welfare bum,\" able to work but preferring to sit home and collect a government check.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1986 November 14, Jacquie Miller, “Single mothers use song, skit to plead for higher family benefits”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09, page 26",
          "text": "Marin, who receives $576 a month in family benefits, says she has to get groceries from a food bank every month to survive. . . . \"The other kids tell my kid: ‘Your mother's a welfare bum.’\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014 December 1, Larissa Burnouf, “Saskatoon landlord tells First Nations woman to kill herself when applying for apartment”, in APTN News, Canada, retrieved 2015-11-09",
          "text": "He also told Sewap to “get a job and stop being a welfare bum.”",
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        "A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work."
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        "(informal, Canada and US, derogatory) A person whose source of income is government public assistance payments, especially one who is lazy and unwilling to work."
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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "welfare parasite"
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  "word": "welfare bum"
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