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social distance
[ soh-shuhl dis-tuhns ]
noun
- Sociology. the extent to which individuals or groups are removed from or excluded from participating in one another's lives.
- a safe or appropriate distance or amount of space between two people or between people in a group: Stay at a social distance of a few feet from anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
Security concerns demand that officers maintain a social distance from inmates.
Stay at a social distance of a few feet from anyone who is coughing or sneezing.
verb (used without object)
- to maintain a safe or appropriate distance from other people, especially to slow the spread of a contagious illness or disease:
Mom’s trying hard to social distance, though she misses her weekly Bingo game.
verb (used with object)
- to place or keep at a safe or appropriate distance from other people:
We’ve been exposed to the flu, so we’re social distancing ourselves from friends and extended family.
Word History and Origins
Origin of social distance1
Example Sentences
As the weather gets colder and folks continue to social distance, moving the bar experience to the American home could help save the industry.
With this sense of social isolation has come longer AHTs as both customers and employees are using their time on calls to help bridge some of the social distance.
All attendees must wear a mask, be in good health, and social distance while in their teams.
With close quarters, close confinement, it’s impossible to safely maintain social distance.
They also had to keep a social distance from other attendees.
The liability is a vast personal and social distance from most Americans.
But let's not forget that social distance has been a problem for more than just this one politician.
The contacts of persons and of groups may then be plotted in units of social distance.
It must be evident to you, Selma, that very shortly we shall see only the dust of their chariot-wheels in the dim social distance.
To remove the social distance between him and his fiance he was loaded down with honors and dignities.
Between them there was too much of a moral and social distance.
Somehow, with it on this morning, she felt diminish the social distance between herself and Ferrol.
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