civic society

noun

A voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.

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Meanings

nouncivic society (plural civic societies)

plural civic societies

  1. UKA voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.

    The plaque, of light-blue hue (a tone favoured by the Wiltshire market town's civic society), can be found on a nondescript structure just outside the station.

    2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57
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