social unit

Questions about social unit

What does social unit mean?

social unit means "an organization regarded as part of a larger social group".

What is another word for social unit?

Close synonyms include unit. 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 social unit a common word?

social unit 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.