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societynoun(PEOPLE)B1[CorU]alargegroupofpeoplewholivetogether in anorganizedway, makingdecisionsabout how to do things andsharingtheworkthatneedsto be done. All thepeoplein acountry, or in severalsimilarcountries, can be referred to as a society: 社会 aclassless/multicultural/capitalist/civilizedsociety无阶级／多元文化／资本主义／文明的社会 Thesechangesstrikeat theheartof British/American/modernsociety.这些变化冲击了英国／美国／现代社会的核心。 There's adangerthat we will end upblaminginnocentchildrenfor society'sproblems.我们最终有可能会把社会问题怪罪到无辜的孩子们头上。 We must alsoconsidertheneedsof theyounger/oldermembersofsociety.我们必须考虑到社会上年轻人／老年人的需求。 [U](alsohigh society)thepartof society that consists ofpeoplewho arerich,powerful, andfashionable: 上层社会 a societyhostess/ball/function上流社会的女主人／舞会／宴会 [U]formalthestateof being together with otherpeople: 交往；相伴 Sheprefersher own society(=likesto bealone).她喜欢独处。 - Afairjusticesystemis afundamentalpartof acivilizedsociety.
- In mostcountries, thefamilyunitis still thecornerstoneof society.
- We arewitnessingthecorrosionofmoralstandardswithinoursociety.
- Thejudgedescribedhim as adangerto society.
- Welivein amulticulturalsociety.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSociety - general words - amenity
- civilization
- civilized
- consumer society
- culturomics
- digital divide
- hunter-gatherer
- non-segregated
- non-segregation
- non-utility
- pluralism
- sociality
- socially
- societal
- socio-
- sociocultural
- sociology
- superstructure
- uncivilized
- utility
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Rich people Friends, acquaintances & contemporaries societynoun(ORGANIZATION)B2[C]anorganizationto whichpeoplewhosharesimilarinterestscanbelong: 组织；社团；协会 theschooldebatingsociety学校辩论协会 theRoyalSociety for the Protection of Birds皇家鸟类保护协会 - achoralsociety
- anoperaticsociety
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesOrganizations, Societies & clubs - Assn
- Assoc.
- cellular
- co-op
- collective
- collegium
- confederacy
- confederation
- consortium
- cooperative
- foundation
- guild
- host
- institute
- mission
- outfit
- rump
- substation
- syndicate
- youth club
See more results » society| American Dictionarysocietynoun(PEOPLE)[C/U]peopleconsideredas agroup, or agroupofpeoplewholivetogether in aparticularsocialsystem: [U]Society ischanginglittle by little. [C]Societieschangeover thecourseoftime. [C/U]Society also refers to thatgroupofpeoplewho arerich,powerful, orfashionable: [U]He’s apartof Boston society. societynoun(ORGANIZATION)[C]anorganizationforpeoplewho havespecialinterestsor whowanttosupportparticularactivities: Zoological societiesprotectandstudywildanimals. society| Business English[U]peopleingenerallivingtogether in anorganizedway, makingdecisionsabout how to do things, andsharingtheworkthatneedsto be done: Society cannotexpectperfectioninproductsandservices, but it canexpectthatcorporationswill alwaysactresponsibly. Thesefraudstersare preying on thepoorestand the mostvulnerablepeoplein society. [CorU]thepeoplewholivein aparticularcountryorareaandtheirway oflifeandcustoms: Theprimegrowthengineofcapitalistsocieties isinnovation. Welivein amulticulturalsociety. Will weeverachieveacashlesssociety? Homeownership is alinchpinof American society. [C]BANKINGused in thenameof some UKbanksto show that they aremutuals(=banksthat areownedby thepeoplewhokeepmoneyin them), or that they weremutualin the past: Thebuildingsocietyrespondedtonumerousinquiriesaboutmortgagesfromfirst-timebuyers. Thesebondsare onlyofferedbyfriendlysocieties. The society says it has beenpassingonextrabenefitstoitsmembersfor sometime. [C]anorganizationto whichpeoplewhosharesimilarinterestscanbelong: the American Society of Civil Engineers the Industrial Society See alsobuilding society classification society consumer society cooperative society credit society friendly society stakeholder theory Examplesofsocietysociety Some medical specialty societies already are recognized as proponents of standards of care by health plans.From theCambridge English Corpus The abolitionist was, constitutionally speaking, neither officer nor prisoner and as a consequence may stand for the ordinary citizen - "society," the people at large.From theCambridge English Corpus This organic vision ofsocietywas shared by moralists and philosophers.From theCambridge English Corpus The state, defined as the governing apparatus, cannot be physically ubiquitous by showing its physical presence in every sphere of thesociety.From theCambridge English Corpus As such, ethnicity as ideology provides a psychological formula which mitigates the uncertainties of state-societyrelations.From theCambridge English Corpus The party's electorate basically resembles the complexion ofsociety.From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, in a liberal democracy with a well-developed private sector, would-be hegemonic efforts to extend the party's influence throughsocietycan have unexpected results.From theCambridge English Corpus These new parties often had origins in the civilsocietywhich was allowed to exist during the authoritarian era.From theCambridge English Corpus Getting married confirmed a man's entry into patriarchalsociety, conferring new social roles and responsibilities.From theCambridge English Corpus The multiple roles that people hold within their family, community, work, andsocietyas a whole work to define their sense of self.From theCambridge English Corpus Ultimately the genre survives in the twenty-first century primarily in our university choruses and local choral societies.From theCambridge English Corpus People order their material surroundings in ways that suit their world-view, thus creating and manipulating their place insociety.From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, a first step requires organizational and technical support to scavenging activity through the formation of cooperative societies or micro-enterprises.From theCambridge English Corpus The history of the relationship between insurance and civilsociety, as usually told, is an anticlimactic narrative.From theCambridge English Corpus Within a single state andsociety, by contrast, politics was supposed to be about the common good.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithsocietysocietyThese are words often used in combination withsociety. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. advanced society But progress has its price, and the task is a difficult one-the task of adapting to an advanced society. From theCambridge English Corpus affluent society The ecological approaches modelled palaeolithic societies as living on the edge and always in need, but also led to such qualifications as the original affluent society and the original ecologists. From theCambridge English Corpus ageing society Promoting transformative learning enables community volunteering to provide meaningful roles for seniors, and promotes citizenship participation and the social economy in an ageing society. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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