intergroup

[ in-ter-groop ]

adjectiveSociology.
  1. taking place or being between groups: intergroup relationships.

Origin of intergroup

1
First recorded in 1880–85; inter- + group

Words Nearby intergroup

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How to use intergroup in a sentence

  • These cases already show us the distinction between intragroup money and intergroup money.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner
  • In intergroup affairs, therefore, the relations sooner become impersonal and mechanical.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner
  • Thus group money arose from property; intergroup money from trade.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner
  • Here the effect of intergroup trade has been to change the skin which was taken as the unit.

    Folkways | William Graham Sumner
  • As a rule, the outcome of episodes of intergroup competition is geographic exclusion.