Definition of socioeconomic
: of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors
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Examples of socioeconomic in a Sentence
Their socioeconomic backgrounds are very different.
Recent Examples of socioeconomic from the Web
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Barack Obama’s administration made some efforts to encourage socioeconomic diversity; Donald Trump’s has partly ditched them.
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So what is to be done about this socioeconomic quandary?
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This access is to be guaranteed regardless of income, race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
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Gibbons will discuss the socioeconomic and political impact of the decade as well as the end of the Cold War.
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The pages of history preserve the legacies of the rich and powerful, but devote relatively little attention to members of lower socioeconomic classes.
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Studies have shown that no matter the socioeconomic strata in which a child is raised, a robust support system will help that child thrive academically and socially.
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The Green Bay sport fishery is the subject of a socioeconomic study by researchers at UW-Green Bay and UW-Whitewater.
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Consequences include widening the resource gap among school districts, creating costly inefficiencies, and creating socioeconomic and racial disparities.
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First Known Use of socioeconomic
1883
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: of, relating to, or involving a combination of social and economic factors
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