secondary group


nounSociology.
  1. a group of people with whom one's contacts are detached and impersonal.

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How to use secondary group in a sentence

  • Then, too, we saw in one section of this universe a secondary group, composed of great numbers of rose-colored and blue stars.

    Urania | Camille Flammarion
  • With hesitation one places such a cathedral as Bourges in a secondary group.

    How France Built Her Cathedrals | Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly