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SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does social democracy mean?
• SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (noun)
The noun SOCIAL DEMOCRACY has 1 sense:
1. the belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means
Familiarity information: SOCIAL DEMOCRACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The belief in a gradual transition from capitalism to socialism by democratic means
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("social democracy" is a kind of...):
ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)
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