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friendly society en · NOUN
Meanings
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Any of various early types of life insurance or mutual support associations.
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.
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 635:
Forms
Hyponyms
burial society
Synonyms
benefit society