fabric of society

collocation in English

meaningsoffabricandsociety

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fabric
noun
uk
/ˈfæb.rɪk/us
/ˈfæb.rɪk/
cloth or material for making clothes, covering ...
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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 offabricandsocietyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It attempts to explain what people do, given thefabricofsocietyand social interaction.
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Cloth may have a smooth or rough fabric. 3 a structure; something constructed of combined parts; framework: thefabricofsociety.
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In the winter of 1978–79, which has gone into folk memory as the winter of discontent, thefabricofsocietywas disintegrating fast.
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It stifles investment, turns us into short-time speculators, and pulls apart thefabricofsociety.
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To try to do it by manipulating the social structure of thefabricofsocietynot only does not work but causes worse problems.
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At worst, inflation can devastate an economy and undermine the wholefabricofsociety.
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They want to try to create afabricofsocietywhich will give women a much more equal opportunity.
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It is the quality and thefabricofsocietythat we are talking about.
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On top of all the other sufferings, that must impose yet greater strains on thefabricofsociety.
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Does it make sense for the type offabricofsociety, not just the type of commercial enterprise that we want to see?
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The realfabricofsocietyis the spiritual and moral fabric.
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This has an effect on the whole family and on the moralfabricofsociety.
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I believe that is very serious for thefabricofsociety.
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We are dealing with a subject fundamental to the wholefabricofsociety.
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I am aware that they are concerned for thefabricofsocietyand for their fellow citizens.
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The family is also the strongest of human institutions which holds together thefabricofsocietywith bonds of sharing and caring.
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Within this broad umbrella the board does much that is specifically designed to encourage local enterprise as well as the socialfabricofsociety.
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We are talking about something that makes a genuine and economic contribution to thefabricofsociety.
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It is disastrous for our economy and for thefabricofsocietyin many mining areas.
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Nothing else is acceptable because inflation undermines thefabricofsociety.
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