social contract
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Pronunciation
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Noun
social contract (plural social contracts)
- (philosophy, politics) An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society governing such matters as submission of individuals to the rule of law and acceptable conduct.
- Synonym: social compact
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]
- 2023 April 24, Charles Hugh Smith, America's Social Contract Is Broken:
- When scammers large and small live better than those creating value in the real economy, the Social Contract has ceased to exist.
Translations
agreement or contract
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