friendly society
Britishnoun
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In interviews, Taiwanese pointed to universal healthcare, an open and friendly society, freedom of expression and convenience in daily life as other potential contributors to local happiness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2025
Walters points to the popularity of films such as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and action blockbuster Red or The Expendables as evidence in the shift towards a more grey friendly society.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2014
The friendly society has 927,000 child trust fundholders, whose funds are currently outsourced to the Capita for management.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012
His remains have been conveyed to the grave; and, with the balance of money from the friendly society, or trades' club, she has been supported to the end of the first month of her widowhood.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various
Afterwards he founded a friendly society, by means of which he raised large funds for the benefit of himself, and apparently no one else.
From Christopher Crayon's Recollections The Life and Times of the late James Ewing Ritchie as told by himself by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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