segment of society
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsegmentandsociety
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segment
noun[C]
uk/ˈseɡ.mənt/us/ˈseɡ.mənt/
one of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be ...
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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 ofsegmentandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Instead, these will be made readily available only to a narrowsegmentofsociety.
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In other words, they are the most 'postmodern'segmentofsocietyin socioeconomic terms.
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It is argued that even the least politically sophisticatedsegmentofsocietyreceives messages about the economy and uses this information to update attitudes about political issues.
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The difference, in other words, concerned the politics of counting, which was no longer concentrated within an elite domain but diffused across a much widersegmentofsociety.
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Aside from the proliferation of accessories, the fabric, as much as the cut or decoration of garments, advertised a fashion-consciousness among a wideningsegmentofsociety.
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Because encompassing organizations represent the interests of a largesegmentofsociety, their members share in both the benefits and the losses resulting from policies that affect their members.
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The result is that a much widersegmentofsocietymay think it understands foreign policies when, in fact, it has a narrow and sensationalized picture of the world.
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However, by the middle of the century, a sporting revolution had occurred and a newsegmentofsocietyaspired to join the ranks of the horsy set.
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We know from the statistics that even though women constitute a growingsegmentofsociety, this trend is not reflected in their share of employment.
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It is no coincidence that he happens to represent a thinsegmentofsociety.
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The rent rebate scheme now affords, in spite of inflation, benefit to an extremely restrictedsegmentofsociety.
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Therefore, only a very smallsegmentofsocietyhas such investments.
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Particular attention needs to be devoted, in implementing the programmes, to increasing transparency, goal-oriented approaches and effectiveness, and to making sure that they reach an ever greatersegmentofsociety.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Instead of looking to the whole of society to pay for the additional benefits, they are placing the burden on onesegmentofsociety—the employed person.
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Third, the option of anysegmentofsocietyto opt out of the political process and to propose alternative solutions for its own governance.
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Society and economy will be affected as the proportion of youth declines - typically the most entrepreneurial, creating and risk takingsegmentofsociety.
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Government policies designed to favor foreign interests exacerbated the crisis as well, leaving the regime alienated from just about everysegmentofsociety.
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The organization supports the economically and educationally backwardsegmentofsociety.
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His father belonged to a rich gentry family, but his mother came from the most deprivedsegmentofsociety, agricultural servants.
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