social circle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandcircle
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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circle
noun
uk/ˈsɜː.kəl/us/ˈsɝː.kəl/
a continuous curved line, the points of which are always the same distance away from a fixed central point, or the area inside such ...
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(Definition ofsocialandcirclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, this telling to others primarily spreads information within asocialcircleof close friends and relations.
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For many, their immediate 'socialcircle' comprises friends from the educational institutions where they studied, colleagues at their work place, or even neighbours.
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The council, it seems, drew on the chapel personnel of its immediatesocialcircleat that time to supplement the royal chapel.
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Some spoke of an upbringing that did not involve segregation (including a widersocialcircle, interaction with men, parties, etc.) that was ultimately unsatisfying to them.
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The spectacle would certainly humiliate well-to-do divorce litigants among their ownsocialcircle, but it would also provide entertainment to a wider audience reaching down the social ladder.
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Regardless of the terms of their personal relationship, they were capable of transgressing social boundaries in their engagement with one another without censure in their elitesocialcircle.
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We belong to one world and oursocialcirclecomes from many different countries.
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Forced medical retirement comes next, and a gradual restriction of thesocialcircle.
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Then, when they got a bit older, they became part of widersocialcircleand gradually succumbed to the seductive lure of the odd cigarette.
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She has also built up a widesocialcircleby using dial-a-bus.
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It all depends on what your contacts have been, and thesocialcirclein which you move.
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They also sometimes fail at home or among their ownsocialcircle.
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They also risk losing their business, their livelihood, their family connections and their widersocialcircle.
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If one had a national police force the policemen concerned—the chief officers and so on—would have to live somewhere and, presumably, they would have asocialcircle.
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Bessie was part of thesocialcircle.
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And if the opposingsocialcircledoesn't live up to its virtual profile, well, it's a night out with your gang.
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She had a widesocialcircleand was known for her wit and good company.
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Stein mentions 10 people in hersocialcirclewho left the organization in 1991 - presumably it still existed at that time.
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A group of social positions will create a social class and asocialcircle.
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