social contract

1. 1.

   an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection

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Questions about social contract

What does social contract mean?

social contract means "an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection".

Is social contract a common word?

social contract 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.