social contract

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WOTD – 18 August 2012

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Noun

social contract (plural social contracts)

(philosophy, politics) An implicit agreement or contract among members of a society governing such matters as submission of individuals to rule of law and acceptable conduct.
- 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly‎, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
  In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

Translations

agreement or contract

Armenian: հասարակական պայմանագիր (hy) (hasarakakan paymanagir)
Catalan: contracte social m
Finnish: yhteiskuntasopimus (fi)
French: contrat social m
German: Gesellschaftsvertrag (de) m
Italian: contratto sociale m
Japanese: 社会契約 (shakai keiyaku)
Latin: pactum socialis n, contractus socialis m

Polish: umowa społeczna f
Portuguese: contrato social
Romanian: contract social m
Russian: обще́ственный догово́р (obščéstvennyj dogovór)
Spanish: contrato social m
Turkish: toplumsal sözleşme
Ukrainian: суспільний договір (suspilʹnyj dohovir), соціальний договір (socialʹnyj dohovir)

See also

social contract on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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