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noun Sociology.

the cooperative as opposed to the competitive factors operating in the development of society.

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Origin of mutual aid

First recorded in 1530–40

Words nearby mutual aid

muttonhead, mutton snapper, Muttra, mutual, mutual admiration society, mutual aid, Mutual Assured Destruction, mutual fund, mutual impedance, mutual inductance, mutual induction

How to use mutual aid in a sentence

Restaurants are serving breakfast tacos, gumbo, and whatever else they can to feed the community and support mutual aid organizers
Austin’s Restaurants Rally to Feed the Storm-Worn Community|Nadia Chaudhury|February 18, 2021|Eater
These mutual aid funds, nonprofits, and community groups are getting hot meals and other supplies to people on the ground right now
How to Help Feed Houstonians Impacted By the City’s Winter Weather Crisis|Amy McCarthy|February 18, 2021|Eater
Some have resorted to staying in hotels for heat and electricity, and mutual aid groups have also worked to relocate vulnerable or homeless residents to nearby hotels.
What’s going on with hotel booking prices in Texas?|Terry Nguyen|February 18, 2021|Vox
Funds to pay for the rooms are obtained through mutual aid groups or other avenues.
Inauguration security puts homeless trans people at increased risk|Kaela Roeder|January 19, 2021|Washington Blade

In hard-hit California, officials activated a mutual aid program for coroners, designed to help local authorities cope with “mass fatality.”
Record numbers of covid-19 patients push hospitals and staffs to the limit|Brittany Shammas, Ariana Eunjung Cha, Ben Guarino, Jacqueline Dupree|December 17, 2020|Washington Post
Among the carnivorous mammals the social dog or wolf tribe displays the intelligent habit of mutual aid.
Man And His Ancestor|Charles Morris
His contention is that in progressive evolution, mutual aid plays a greater part than mutual struggle.
Comrade Kropotkin|Victor Robinson
Here he had to learn to get on with other individuals, to live and let live, to practise co-operation and mutual aid.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe|John M. Tyler
Kropotkins Mutual Aid is worth noting here as one of the earliest correctives to these popular misconceptions of Darwinism.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind|Herbert George Wells
They are for the sake of preserving order in domestic affairs, and for the sake of mutual aid.
The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love|Emanuel Swedenborg