Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being healthy, happy, or prosperous; welfare.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Well-conditioned existence: good mode of being; moral or physical welfare; a state of life which secures or tends toward happiness. Sometimes written wellbeing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a state of
health ,happiness and/orprosperity
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
- noun a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous
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Examples
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˜well-being™ is an otiose notion in ethics is that he himself seems to have a view on what well-being is.
Well-Being Crisp, Roger 2008
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The biggest mistake I see parents making is that they want their children to love them, but the price they're paying is the long-term well-being of their children.
Bridget Nielsen: 5 Ways to Get Your Kids Eating Healthfully Bridget Nielsen 2011
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Work and family balance policy recognizes the importance of quality child care to the long-term well-being of families.
David Gray: Progress on Child Care Policy David Gray 2011
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Work and family balance policy recognizes the importance of quality child care to the long-term well-being of families.
David Gray: Progress on Child Care Policy David Gray 2011
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Work and family balance policy recognizes the importance of quality child care to the long-term well-being of families.
David Gray: Progress on Child Care Policy David Gray 2011
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The biggest mistake I see parents making is that they want their children to love them, but the price they're paying is the long-term well-being of their children.
Bridget Nielsen: 5 Ways to Get Your Kids Eating Healthfully Bridget Nielsen 2011
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The biggest mistake I see parents making is that they want their children to love them, but the price they're paying is the long-term well-being of their children.
Bridget Nielsen: 5 Ways to Get Your Kids Eating Healthfully Bridget Nielsen 2011
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In nations where governments have become dysfunctional, the central operating systems of those governments refuse to place the needs of their people's long-term well-being ahead of the short-term realities and interests of the powers-that-be.
Jack Myers: Change Agents: Cancer or Cure? Jack Myers 2011
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The biggest mistake I see parents making is that they want their children to love them, but the price they're paying is the long-term well-being of their children.
Bridget Nielsen: 5 Ways to Get Your Kids Eating Healthfully Bridget Nielsen 2011
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Work and family balance policy recognizes the importance of quality child care to the long-term well-being of families.
David Gray: Progress on Child Care Policy David Gray 2011
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