social action

1. 1.

   a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform)

   Broadersocial policy

   Narroweraffirmative actionfence mending

Questions about social action

What does social action mean?

social action means "a social policy of reform (especially socioeconomic reform)".

Is social action a common word?

social action 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.