English Dictionary

sit-down money

名詞

オーストラリア英語 口語 くだけた表現 不可算名詞

(Australia, colloquial, informal) Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginals.

日本語の意味

（オーストラリアの口語表現）失業保険やその他の社会福祉、社会保障を含む公的給付金、特にアボリジニに支給される場合が多い。

After the mine shut down, some Aboriginal families depended on sit-down money while they looked for new work.

鉱山が閉鎖した後、新しい仕事を探す間、オーストラリアの先住民の家族の中には福祉給付金に頼っていた人々もいた。

意味（1）

(Australia, colloquial, informal) Welfare or social security, including unemployment benefits, especially such welfare paid to Aboriginals.

I have given you examples of some of the reforms we have already put in place which are helping young people, for example, to find jobs instead of getting sit-down money, which they got from Labor.