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@drewnogal said
I got it every 4 weeks when I worked for social services as a ‘temporary domestic’. Dreadful job! I got 3 weeks work then had to ‘sign on’ for every 4th so I never accumulated any holiday pay. That’s why I always remember my national insurance number.

We just called them Giros.
We called it "the dole" since WW2, before that there was no welfare system. People in jobs paid voluntarily into "friendly societies" which coughed up small amounts if you were too sick to work. They eventually turned into health insurers and superannuation payers if they lasted long enough. Our first government welfare in the 1930s was bare food cost called "sustenance" and was enough to provide turnips and potatoes and soup, but nothing else.

I'd better offer another word which has worldwide meaning then.

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I enemy

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That's
i enemy
not L enemy, it's the letter i

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@kewpie said
Since it can't be PATIENCE, how about PATIENTS?
Correct;

Sorry for not getting back

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@kewpie said
We called it "the dole" since WW2, before that there was no welfare system. People in jobs paid voluntarily into "friendly societies" which coughed up small amounts if you were too sick to work. They eventually turned into health insurers and superannuation payers if they lasted long enough. Our first government welfare in the 1930s was bare food cost called "sustenance" an ...[text shortened]... se.

I'd better offer another word which has worldwide meaning then.

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I enemy
Can I have another clue?

Got it!

CATARACT

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S - E - E - O -

In a cupboard.

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@drewnogal said
S - E - E - O -

In a cupboard.
SKELETON

**O*A*I*

You may only get this on occasion.

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AROMATIC?

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@kewpie said
AROMATIC?
No, not that.

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@indonesia-phil said
No, not that.
SPORADIC

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@kewpie said
SPORADIC
I’m sure it’s right. Give us a word anyway?

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I'm not at all sure it's right, but until we hear otherwise ...

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@kewpie said
I'm not at all sure it's right, but until we hear otherwise ...

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SPORADIC was right, and this is....

CATAPULT

*E**E*O*

Someone keeping all the privet?

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@indonesia-phil said
SPORADIC was right, and this is....

CATAPULT

*E**E*O*

Someone keeping all the privet?
HEDGEHOG

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Two dozen legs walked here.

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@drewnogal said
HEDGEHOG

-U - - A - I - E

Two dozen legs walked here.
It's not quarantine (10 letters) or submarine (not clue); 12 bipeds or 6 quadrupeds could be a squad of some sort on a parade ground, or a group on a trek, but I'm getting nowhere so far.

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It is SUBMARINE.
2 dozen legs makes the 4 Beatles.

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