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Civic-minded

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Civic-minded is an adjective meaning Concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.

Meaning

Concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.

Example Sentences

"You have to teach ‘Blessed are the civic-minded, for they shall profit by their civism.’"
[W]hen the "H.O.V. lane" is activated . . . a lane is reserved for these civic-minded, traffic-reducing car poolers.
Civic-minded techies are increasingly bringing Web 2.0 to political activism, developing new watchdog tools that open up congressional machinery for ordinary citizens to scrutinize and critique.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include civics, civic, civicminded, allocentric, sociocentric, cosmopolitanist.

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