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civic-minded

civic-minded adjective: concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.

Adjective

civic-minded (comparative more civic-minded, superlative most civic-minded)

  1. Concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.
    • "You have to teach ‘Blessed are the civic-minded, for they shall profit by their civism.’"1901, George Gissing, chapter 18, in Our Friend the Charlatan
    • [W]hen the "H.O.V. lane" is activated . . . a lane is reserved for these civic-minded, traffic-reducing car poolers.1993 September 19, William Safire, “On Language: Linguaclip”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2021, retrieved 21 Apr 2014

Forms of civic-minded

comparativemore civic-minded
superlativemost civic-minded

Words formed from civic-minded

Questions about civic-minded

What does civic-minded mean?
Civic-minded means concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.
What part of speech is civic-minded?
Civic-minded is an adjective.

Words near civic-minded in the dictionary

  1. civic nationalists
  2. civic sense
  3. civic senses
  4. civic societies
  5. civic society
  6. civic-minded
  7. civic-mindedly
  8. civic-mindedness
  9. civically
  10. civicism
  11. civicist

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