national society

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandsociety

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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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 ofnationalandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Not until the ' democratic spring ' of 1944-54 did this ' separate and unequal ' structuring ofnationalsocietyundergo substantive change.
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In a sense, therefore, such a system fosters a multiculturalnationalsociety.
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If anyone is aggrieved at the change, why not give him the option of transferring into another society—a purelynationalsociety?
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From the standpoint of thenationalsocietythere is absolutely no complaint.
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The department receives such a request from anationalsociety, on average, every six weeks.
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That will contribute to the well-being ofnationalsociety.
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It was funded through the training and enterprising council, although the money was paid directly to thenationalsociety.
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That must apply equally to an international society just as to anationalsociety.
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First, it is wrong in any circumstances for local government to try fundamentally to change ournationalsociety.
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The individual can make his deposit in a largenationalsocietyor in his own regional society.
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What about the difference between anationalsociety, which has branches, and a number of local societies doing in effect exactly the same thing?
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Some local authorities have already expressed the opinion that it is unfair to give grants which belong really and strictly to their own residents to anationalsociety.
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That is anationalsociety.
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Thenationalsocietyprovides a comprehensive range of services to address the unmet needs of patients, and its services are used about 100,000 times a year.
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We are all members of onenationalsociety, and everything that we do or do not do has its implications for the whole of that society.
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This was the group that had been youngest and most vulnerable during the initial contact withnationalsociety.
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It has over 1,000 ordinary members (includingnationalsocietymembers).
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The appeal asked for repair supplies and to improve the response capacity of thenationalsocietyfor future disasters.
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The memorial is notable because it was the first national memorial erected by anationalsocietyof women.
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Money is collected by anationalsocietywhen copyrighted music is performed in public, in the form of license fees.
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