friendly society

English

Noun

friendly society (plural friendly societies)

  1. Any of various early types of life insurance or mutual support associations. [from 17th c.]
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 635:
      At a lower social level the eighteenth century saw the launching of pioneer insurance schemes by industrial firms for their employees and the proliferation of working-class friendly societies.

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