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social unit
noun
- 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
Charles and Clara Herne were very happy as man and wife, because they were a social unit.
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You are now a perfectly disciplined social unit, with a profound esprit de corps.
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In the Far East the social unit, the ultimate molecule of existence, is not the individual, but the family.
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You are there as the guest of this newly-constituted social unit, this new family.
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The social unit is the family, and consequently the architectural unit is the “home.”
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