Word Finder - social

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A festive gathering to foster introductions.

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They organized a social at the dance club to get people to know each other.

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A dance held to raise money for a couple to be married.

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A dinner dance event, usually held annually by a company or sporting club.

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A social media account.

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Being extroverted or outgoing.

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James is a very social guy; he knows lots of people.

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Of or relating to society.

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Teresa feels uncomfortable in certain social situations.

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Relating to social media or social networks.

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social gaming

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Relating to a nation's allies.

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Cooperating or growing in groups.

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a social insect

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Interactive forms of media that allow users to interact with and publish to each other, generally by means of the Internet.

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The early 21st century saw a huge increase in social media thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet.

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A system whereby the state either through general or specific taxation provides various benefits to help ensure the wellbeing of its citizens.

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Those benefits paid under such a system.

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A specific such social benefit providing income in retirement or disability.

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A nine-digit number issued to citizens, permanent residents, and temporary (working) residents under section 205(c)(2) of the Social Security Act, codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2). The number is issued to an individual by the Social Security Administration. Its primary purpose is to track individuals for taxation purposes. Abbreviated as SSN. In recent years the SSN has become a de facto national identification number.

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A corresponding number in other countries.

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The study of history, geography, civics, sociology, economics, and other social-science subjects, especially in primary and secondary school.

I'm not much of a social person I guess.

She works with social services.

She had always been a recluse at heart, often declining a social outing with her friends so that she could be alone with a book or her writing.

That wasn't too surprising, considering the fact that she insisted she wasn't a social person.

I always wondered if that was why Mom and Dad split up for a while - because Mom was used to a different lifestyle and social circle.

In any case, she would never be a social fit.

Did he miss the social life he had in Houston?

But the social aspects of the gathering were of importance to the participants as well.

Nowadays, the social reformer is cool and hip.

I guess in social circles he would be considered a big player.

Their social life was church, they had no television and even when Carmen had attended college, they had requested that she stay at home every night instead of living in a dorm.

After this came the Great Depression, which so overwhelmed the social support structures that Americans turned to the government for help and have never turned back.

Justin says I should get out more, but I came here to take a break from the miseries of social life.

Dean quickly understood this was no social call.

But this beautiful edifice was not my destination nor were its inhabitants my social equal.

Carmen would want to encourage him in this and Katie would consider it a social achievement.

Julie maintained no Face Book or Twitter account, nor could Betsy locate her on any other social network sites.

All had been collecting Social Security for a good part of Dean's lifetime.

They have social security.

The second way people choose a nutritional theory is to develop it from their overall social and political understanding of the world.

But over time, as incomes around the world rise, people will migrate more and more to products associated with social practices that match their own ideals.

Their greatest social obligation had been the local church fund raiser.

Taxes will rise, and social programs will grow.

It helps us bring about our social ideals.

In the first moment of Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror-struck.

With the present complex forms of political and social life in Europe can any event that is not prescribed, decreed, or ordered by monarchs, ministers, parliaments, or newspapers be imagined?

In a state of deep depression, she stopped by the social services office on the way home and picked up some literature and a form.

On the record, tell the public this; you've been led to believe the psychic tipster is a woman of an age able to collect social security.

Fred mentioned she was a social minded do-gooder type citizen.

This isn't a social visit.

But that was no social call.

Could you have foreseen that the advent of a technology called "air conditioning" in homes would alter the social fabric of the nation?

In the modern era, what we have seen around the world is a general increase in social services and the welfare state over time.

The Amish have no need for Social Security.

The club offers social opportunities for members, including dining, holiday events and childrens' functions.

Fred slipped out early to renew his social life while the Deans ate soup and sandwiches.

Weeks had passed since the two had spoken and the conversation was more social than business.

The children and their governesses were glad of Pierre's return because no one else drew them into the social life of the household as he did.

Alex needed to give Social Services an answer tomorrow.

Its social good, on average, is $2,000 a pan.

Once borders are secured, nations turn to social order.

And it facilitates social interaction and connection.

Illuminism is not a pure doctrine, just because it is attracted by social activity and puffed up by pride.

But back then, being pregnant with no husband didn't get you up the social ladder any too fast.

It seemed to Dean she'd spent her life on the outside, in some respects by choice, somehow driven from one social plane down to another, much lower, until there was nothing left but death.

Social structures will change, and the purpose of education will be to learn to reason and find one's passion.

Though it was unintelligible why he had told it, or why it had to be told in Russian, still Anna Pavlovna and the others appreciated Prince Hippolyte's social tact in so agreeably ending Pierre's unpleasant and unamiable outburst.

The prince, who generally kept very strictly to social distinctions and rarely admitted even important government officials to his table, had unexpectedly selected Michael Ivanovich (who always went into a corner to blow his nose on his checked handkerchief) to illustrate the theory that all men are equals, and had more than once impressed on his daughter that Michael Ivanovich was "not a whit worse than you or I."

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the more people he is connected with and the more power he has over others, the more evident is the predestination and inevitability of his every action.

Vive l'Empereur! came the voices of men, old and young, of most diverse characters and social positions.