socioeconomic
adjective
so·cio·eco·nom·ic
ˌsō-sē-ō-ˌe-kə-ˈnä-mik 
-ˌē-kə-,
ˌsō-shē-
variants
or socio-economic
: of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors
Examples of socioeconomic in a Sentence
Their socioeconomic backgrounds are very different.
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The researchers compared reports by geography — city versus suburban schools — and by school socioeconomic status.
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Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
Poverty, not location, drives differences in pregnancy diets Our study also assessed whether socioeconomic status influenced pregnant women’s diets in both rural and urban areas.
—Alex Crisp, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
For these thinkers—including Lewis Terman, who developed the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale—an exclusive gifted classroom logically doubled as a tool of racial and socioeconomic segregation.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
Walsh also notes that the descendants of Africans trafficked to what became the United States are now in better socioeconomic shape than those whose ancestors remained in the Old World or were transported to Latin America or the Caribbean.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 18 Feb. 2026
Poverty, not location, drives differences in pregnancy diets Our study also assessed whether socioeconomic status influenced pregnant women’s diets in both rural and urban areas.
—Alex Crisp, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2026
For these thinkers—including Lewis Terman, who developed the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale—an exclusive gifted classroom logically doubled as a tool of racial and socioeconomic segregation.
—Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2026
Walsh also notes that the descendants of Africans trafficked to what became the United States are now in better socioeconomic shape than those whose ancestors remained in the Old World or were transported to Latin America or the Caribbean.
—Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
See All Example Sentences for socioeconomic
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“Socioeconomic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socioeconomic. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.
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