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social controls

social controls is the plural of social control.

Meaning of social control

Noun

social control (plural social controls)

  1. Any control, either formal or informal, that is exerted by a group, especially by one's peers.

Questions about social controls

What is social controls the plural of?
Social controls is the plural of social control.

Words near social controls in the dictionary

  1. social contagion
  2. social contagions
  3. social contract
  4. social contracts
  5. social control
  6. social controls
  7. social coupon
  8. social coupons
  9. social credit
  10. social creditism
  11. social cue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: social controls (page history and authors); social control (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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