social order
Americannoun
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social orders
plural
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the established structure or mode of organization of a society.
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a state of society characterized by the rule of law, relative peace or calm, respect for shared societal norms and institutions.
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He warned that unmanaged cross-border movement could undermine security and social order, and said no country could address the challenge alone.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Trace Kelly’s transformation, and you’ll see a new social order emerge.
From Slate ● May 6, 2026
In this academic setting a consensus emerged, as the legal scholar Henry Sumner Maine argued, that sacrifice had been the basis for social order and political association.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
Her lack of inhibition causes social order to collapse; outside the cinema, the reaction was just as intense.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2025
There was a social order that, at first, I didn’t understand but kept bumping into.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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