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[ adjective ] incapacitated by injury or illness
Synonyms Used in print ([Anonymous,] "The Attack on Employee Services"...)What sort of effort do you make to assure that older or disabled workers are fully productive ? Would early retirement of non-productive , disabled employees reduce the number of make-work jobs ? Will your union accept seniority concessions in assigning work for older or disabled employees ? (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)From its inception in 1920 with the passage of Public_Law 236 , 66_th_Congress , the purpose of the vocational rehabilitation_program has been to assist the States , by means of grants-in-aid , to return disabled men and women to productive , gainful employment . Up to this time and for the next eight years , the services provided disabled persons consisted mainly of training , counseling , and placement on a job . Related terms |
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[ noun ] people who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped
Examples "technology to help the elderly and the disabled" Used in print (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943 , the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope_with the nation 's backlog of an estimated two million disabled . Under P._L. 113 , 78_th_Congress , the Federal_Government assumed responsibility for 100 % of necessary State expenditures in_connection_with administration and the counseling and placement of the disabled , and for 50 % of the necessary costs of providing clients with rehabilitation case services . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] so badly injured as to be unable to continue
Synonyms Examples "disabled veterans" Used in print (Grants-in-Aid and Other Financial Assistance...)Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943 , the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope_with the nation 's backlog of an estimated two million disabled . Related terms |
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