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meals on wheels
noun
- a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.
meals on wheels
noun
- functioning as singular social welfare a service, usually subsidized, and run by a social services department or voluntary body, which delivers hot meals to elderly or housebound people who might otherwise be unable to have them
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of meals on wheels1
Example Sentences
These include services like Meals on Wheels, which serves 260 million meals to 2 million people each year.
Meals on Wheels fate is still uncertain.
Leaders of Meals on Wheels, which delivers food to seniors, warned that the spending freeze had the potential to interrupt its operations.
Because of this, I learned that Meals on Wheels and other nonprofits essentially provide quasi-official governmental services: They are funded in part by federal money that is granted to states and, in turn, distributed through state agencies.
Trump’s Office of Management and Budget sent a memo directing federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to … disbursement of all Federal financial assistance,†which threw everything from Meals on Wheels to the rebuilding of a Rhode Island bridge into a state of confusion.
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