individual society

collocation in English

meaningsofindividualandsociety

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individual
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/us
/ˌɪn.dəˈvɪdʒ.u.əl/
a single person or thing, especially when compared to the group or set to which ...
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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 ofindividualandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The lending criteria adopted by building societies are a matter for eachindividualsociety.
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That is something which anindividualsocietycannot organise and in which it needs the help of an official set-up of that kind.
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Different societies will want to exercise different powers, and eachindividualsocietywill probably want to diversify into only a small number of new areas.
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It does not depend on the individual insured person or theindividualsocietywho takes that.
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It is not possible for anindividualsocietylottery to have ticket sales that exceed £1 million.
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Asset lock-in would be a crucial decision for anindividualsociety, and we must also take a view of the effect on the sector as a whole.
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It is up to theindividualsocietyto make the list of minimum capabilities guaranteed by that society.
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Each of them was most likely an independentindividualsociety.
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The balance between the costs and benefits of religion will vary depending upon the phase of an individual society's cultural evolution.
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These stages were predictable and the same for all societies, but positivists believed the progress of individual societies along this path differed.
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Consequently, individual societies will be able to exploit the new powers only at a prudent pace.
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The costs of the ten students there whom we saw had been met by individual societies.
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