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Relief Work(Topical Term)

Preferred form: Relief Work
Used for/see from:
  • n: Humanitarian Assistance
  • n: Assistance, Humanitarian
  • n: Assistances, Humanitarian
  • n: Humanitarian Assistances
  • n: Relief Works
  • n: Work, Relief
  • n: Works, Relief

coord IM with agency supplying the relief (IM) if pertinent; specify geog if pertinent

Assistance, such as money, food, or shelter, given to the needy, aged, or victims of disaster. It is usually granted on a temporary basis. (From The American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed)

91(75); was see under DISASTERS 1968-90; was see under DISASTERS & INDIGENT CARE 1963-67

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