OPEN SOCIETY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A society that allows its members considerable freedom (as in a democracy)

Example:

America's open society has made it an easy target for terrorists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("open society" is a kind of...):

society (an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization)

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