economic and social council

1. 1.

   a permanent council of the United Nations; responsible for economic and social conditions

   SynonymsECOSOC

   Broadercouncil

   Part ofUnited Nations

Questions about economic and social council

What does economic and social council mean?

economic and social council means "a permanent council of the United Nations; responsible for economic and social conditions".

What is another word for economic and social council?

Close synonyms include ECOSOC. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is economic and social council a common word?

economic and social council is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.