An organizational or voluntary association, formed to provide mutual aid, benefit, or insurance for relief from sundry difficulties.
Mutual aid societies of immigrants from the same city, village or region.
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Examples for "benefit society "
Examples for "benefit society "
1 He was later elected to AFC's community benefit society board and football board.
2 Social enterprises are businesses with a mission to benefit society or the environment.
3 And the average mind-jumpingat conclusions-reasonsthat liberal spenders benefit society .
4 With that it rests whether the machine will benefit society , or destroy it.
5 She joined a benefit society , to which she paid 50 cents a month.
1 Did he owe some mutual aid society six-and-four-pence?
2 Anyway, I'm putting together a sort of mutual aid society for the spousal companions of Ben Malley.
3 The Massachusetts Mutual Aid Society , an organization for life insurance, was incorporated in 1875, and its members now number several thousands.
4 The fellow had a pretty fancy in names: the "Orb" Deposit Bank, the "Sceptre" Mutual Aid Society , the "Thrift and Independence" Association.
5 In 1994, a member of the Lebanese movement Hezbollah bombed the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people.
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