Definition of “societal”

Usage examples

• I wanted to understand the psychology, you know, of repression, correction, call it what you will -- societal revenge.

  Kippax, Frank, The Scar (1990)

• The result will be the development of the societal stakeholder concept of the organisation.

  Business Today (2000)

• Only people with HIV and transgender suffer the same societal bashing.

  Courier, Sunday Mail (2002)

• Changes in the frequency of extremes are often the most sensitive aspects of climate change for ecosystems and societal responses.

  Times, Sunday Times (2004)

• This absence of value means that a threat exists, a threat from a place which is not locked within the societal hierarchies.

  Boyne, Roy, Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason (1990)