Society People Səˈsaɪəti Extra Examples Productive Members Access

• she believes that the arts benefit society as a whole.
• racism exists at all levels of society.
• these children have grown up to be useful and productive members of society.
• every section of society must have access to education.

society

1. people in general, living together in communities
• She believes that the arts benefit society as a whole.
• Racism exists at all levels of society.
• These children have grown up to be useful and productive members of society.
• Every section of society must have access to education.
• They carried out research into the roles of men and women in today’s society.

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• A person's job is one of the factors that determines their place in society.
• He felt isolated from the rest of society.
• Health standards have risen in society at large.
• Officers were drawn largely from the top echelons of society.
• One of the pillars of society must be that everyone has access to the legal system.
• Prisoners often have problems fitting into society on their release.
• She devoted herself to helping the outcasts of society.
• The civil war tore apart the fabric of society.
• The clinic deals with a wide cross-section of society.
• The research examines minorities and their relation to society as a whole.
• We help offenders to become productive members of society.
• Years of high unemployment have left society deeply divided.
2. a particular community of people who share the same customs, laws, etc.
• modern industrial societies
• demand created by a consumer society
• Can Britain ever be a classless society?
• They were discussing the problems of Western society.
• We live in a society that is obsessed with how people look.
• These rights are necessary in a democratic society.

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• Our disposable society must be encouraged to recycle.
• Such language would not be used in polite society.
• US society is becoming more unequal.
• We live in a society dominated by men.
• the celebration of a culturally diverse society
• the class structure of British society
• the consumerist values of the affluent society
• the division of labour in an advanced capitalist society
• the path to becoming a secular society
• Singapore has a delicately balanced multicultural society.
3. a group of people who join together for a particular purpose
• SEE ALSO building society
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/building-society
• a member of the drama society
• the American Society of Newspaper Editors
• I joined the local Genealogy Society.

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• He is a member of numerous professional societies.
• She belongs to the historical society.
• She was active in the Society for Women's Suffrage.
• the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
• He made few friends and joined few clubs or societies.
• Local law societies were unreceptive to the idea.
• She joined the Cranbrook Players, the local amateur dramatic society.
• The campaign was launched by the National Deaf Children's Society.
• the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
4. the group of people in a country who are fashionable, rich and powerful
• Their daughter married into high society.
• a society wedding

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• She moved in high society and had many literary friends.
• She was a poor Irish girl who married into New York society.
5. the state of being with other people
• SYNONYM company
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/company
• He was a solitary man who avoided the society of others.

Word Origin

• mid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘companionship, friendly association with others’): from French société, from Latin societas, from socius ‘companion’.