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social unit

noun

  1. a person or a group of persons, as a family, functioning as a unit in society.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of social unit1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

“And not only did they change it, but they changed it so fast that it implies they’re not only learning from their own experience, but they’re learning from the experience of other sperm whales” in other social units.

Charles and Clara Herne were very happy as man and wife, because they were a social unit.

You are now a perfectly disciplined social unit, with a profound esprit de corps.

In the Far East the social unit, the ultimate molecule of existence, is not the individual, but the family.

You are there as the guest of this newly-constituted social unit, this new family.

The social unit is the family, and consequently the architectural unit is the “home.”

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