fraternization
Americannoun
-
the act of associating with a person or group in a friendly way.
He sees race relations in Brazil as relatively harmonious, with fraternization in sports and carnivals.
-
social or, especially, intimate association with natives of a conquered country, with enemy or allied troops, between members of an organization who are of different ranks, etc..
The colonel was disciplined for fraternization with a junior enlisted airman.
Etymology
Origin of fraternization
First recorded in 1790–1800; fraterniz(e) ( def. ) + -ation ( def. )
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Proper bird behavior training, exercise and fraternization are vital because “an unhappy bird can experience psychosis, which can lead to aggression, mutilation, feather plucking, even eating themselves, which is very scary.”
From Los Angeles Times
The All-Stars face extra travel to a function steeped in fraternization between players at a time when teams, in their day-to-day existence, are strongly discouraged from postgame interactions of any kind.
From New York Times
From her home in Austin, she watched as her friend in Valencia, Spain, went into a far more stringent lockdown, where helicopters supposedly monitored rooftops for fraternization.
From The Guardian
The Forum is perhaps the only place on earth where these opportunities for fraternization are possible.
From The Guardian
A growing number of companies have decided to turn grays into blacks and whites with flat “no fraternization” policies.
From The Guardian
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
