unequal society

collocation in English

meaningsofunequalandsociety

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unequal
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈiː.kwəl/us
/ʌnˈiː.kwəl/
formal
different in size, level, ...
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society
noun
uk
/səˈsaɪ.ə.ti/us
/səˈsaɪ.ə.t̬i/
a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done. All the people in a country, or in several similar countries, can be referred to as ...
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(Definition ofunequalandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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An economicallyunequalsocietywill also be an emotionally unsupportive society.
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Lives that were already barely tolerable (by the standards of a wealthy but hugelyunequalsociety) came under renewed threat in the context of sudden climatic change.
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If that is not anunequalsociety, what is?
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They have a vision of a moreunequalsociety, a more competitive society.
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In education, health and the distribution of wealth we run anunequalsociety.
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In this country we are still anunequalsociety.
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There is anunequalsocietyin the availability of legal aid and those who are poorest are not necessarily the worst off.
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Women who live and work in the countryside, like women in other environments, live in anunequalsociety.
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It shows what anunequalsocietywe have.
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That was the argument we were taught to peddle then—theunequalsociety.
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It is a culture of fair pay and investment rather than the rentier culture which increasingly dominates ourunequalsociety.
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This down the generations has multiplied and given us a scandalouslyunequalsociety.
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Until something is done about it, we shall remain a veryunequalsociety.
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His primary purpose is to restore as best he can theunequalsocietywe had before the war.
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In terms of wealth we are still a veryunequalsociety.
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We are demanding better health care for women from adolescence onwards, with a much more determined effort to eliminate the social and economic disadvantages that perpetuate anunequalsociety.
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That is important because in ourunequalsocietymany men in employment, and many who are not, do not give their spouses sufficient money to meet the weekly grocery bills.
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In anunequalsocietysuch as we have, the bribe held out, the inducement held out, of fame and riches is a very big one indeed.
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Men use greater privileges and superior rights to create anunequalsocietythat leaves women with little to no power.
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