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community work

community work noun: a form of social work enabling people to articulate their needs and interests within the context of structural issues of groups or social spaces and thus improve their living conditions with empirically sound methods.

Noun

community work (countable and uncountable, plural community works)

  1. (uncountable) A form of social work enabling people to articulate their needs and interests within the context of structural issues of groups or social spaces and thus improve their living conditions with empirically sound methods.
    Synonyms:
    community practice
  2. Synonym of community service.

Synonyms of community work

Forms of community work

pluralcommunity works

Questions about community work

What does community work mean?
Community work means a form of social work enabling people to articulate their needs and interests within the context of structural issues of groups or social spaces and thus improve their living conditions with empirically sound methods.
What part of speech is community work?
Community work is a noun.
What is the plural of community work?
The plural of community work is community works.

Words near community work in the dictionary

  1. community resolution
  2. community service
  3. community services
  4. community spirit
  5. community spread
  6. community work
  7. community works
  8. communitywide
  9. communitywise
  10. communiversities
  11. communiversity

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