social work

English

Noun

Wikipedia social work (uncountable)

1. Any of several professions concerned with providing social services to those members of the community that need it.

Derived terms

• social worker

Translations

any of several professions concerned with providing social services

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會工作 (cmn), 社会工作 (cmn) (shèhuì gōngzuò), 社工 (cmn) (shègōng)

• Dutch: maatschappelijk werk (nl) n
• Finnish: sosiaalityö (fi)
• French: travail social (fr) m

• German: soziale Arbeit (de) f
• Japanese: ソーシャルワーク (ja) (sōsharuwāku)
• Romanian: asistență socială (ro)
• Russian: социальная работа (ru) (sociál'naja rabóta) f