gesellschaft
Americannoun
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an association of individuals for common goals, as for entertainment, intellectual, or cultural purposes or for business reasons.
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Sociology. a society or group characterized chiefly by formal organization, impersonal relations, the absence of generally held or binding norms, and a detachment from traditional and sentimental concerns, and often tending to be rationalistic and secular in outlook.
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Origin of gesellschaft
1935–40; < German, equivalent to Geselle companion + -schaft -ship
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Other plans include a new synagogue — funded by the Kurt Weill Gesellschaft, the society that organizes the festival — on the site of the destroyed one where his father worked.
From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2017
Detekt, which was developed by security researcher Claudio Guarnieri, is being released in a partnership with advocacy groups Amnesty International, Digitale Gesellschaft, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Privacy International.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 21, 2014
The doorman is a touch of Gemeinschaft in an ever more Gesellschaft world.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2010
No chain store bank with a branch on every other street corner was the Handels Gesellschaft.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was also a contributor to the Monatsschrift des wissenschaftlichen Vereins in Z�rich, the Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenl�ndischen Gesellschaft, the Theologische Studien u.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various
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