social relation | a relation between living organisms (especially between people) |
housing start | the act of starting to construct a house |
social dancing | dancing as part of a social occasion |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development | the position of the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the position of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development was created in |
social activity | activity considered appropriate on social occasions |
social welfare welfare public assistance | governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need, she lives on welfare |
social insurance | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people, financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue |
supplementary benefit social assistance national assistance | benefits paid to bring incomes up to minimum levels established by law |
Social Security | social welfare program in the U.S., includes old-age and survivors insurance and some unemployment insurance and old-age assistance |
real-estate business | the business of selling real estate |
social control | control exerted (actively or passively) by group action |
social work | any of various services designed to aid the poor and aged and to increase the welfare of children |
social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
beach wagon station wagon wagon estate car beach waggon station waggon waggon | a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat |
boardroom council chamber | a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) |
building complex complex | a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
caparison trapping housing | stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse |
conference table council table council board | the table that conferees sit around as they hold a meeting |
distributor housing | the housing that supports the distributor cam |
housing lodging living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
housing | a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component |
lamp house lamphouse lamp housing | housing that holds a lamp (as in a movie projector) |
tract housing | housing consisting of similar houses constructed together on a tract of land |
superiority complex | an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance |
complex instruction set computing complex instruction set computer CISC | (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip |
structure anatomical structure complex body part bodily structure body structure | a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing, he has good bone structure |
Golgi body Golgi apparatus Golgi complex dictyosome | a netlike structure in the cytoplasm of animal cells (especially in those cells that produce secretions) |
complex composite | a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts, the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town |
social psychology | the branch of psychology that studies persons and their relationships with others and with groups and with society as a whole |
social science | the branch of science that studies society and the relationships of individual within a society |
social anthropology cultural anthropology | the branch of anthropology that deals with human culture and society |
social democracy | the belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means |
complex sentence | a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause |
Social Security number | the number of a particular individual's Social Security account |
social policy | a policy of for dealing with social issues |
social action | a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform) |
intercourse social intercourse | communication between individuals |
social event | an event characteristic of persons forming groups |
affair occasion social occasion function social function | a vaguely specified social event, the party was quite an affair, an occasion arranged to honor the president, a seemingly endless round of social functions |
complex | (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior |
Oedipus complex Oedipal complex | a complex of males, desire to possess the mother sexually and to exclude the father, said to be a source of personality disorders if unresolved |
Electra complex | a complex of females, sexual attraction to the father |
inferiority complex | a sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated |
social group | people sharing some social relation |
military-industrial complex | a country's military establishment and the industries that produce arms and other military equipment, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex--Dwight David Eisenhower |
class stratum social class socio-economic class | people having the same social, economic, or educational status, the working class, an emerging professional class |
histocompatibility complex | a family of fifty or more genes on the sixth human chromosome that code for proteins on the surfaces of cells and that play a role in the immune response |
Continuity Irish Republican Army CIRA Continuity Army Council | a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein |
Fatah Revolutionary Council Fatah-RC Abu Nidal Organization ANO Arab Revolutionary Brigades Black September Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims | a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in , has conducted terrorist attacks incountries, in the s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group |