the social

noun

British, somewhat informal

: money provided by a government program to people who are unable to work because they are old, disabled, or unemployed

He's living on the social now.

Examples of the social in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The cat’s out of the bag, though, and Sand seems to have surrendered to the social media attention and even leaned in. — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2026

The case was one of several lawsuits related to the social media personal injury trial that Meta and YouTube lost earlier this year. — Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026

Those anxieties are very much the fabric of the social context of the people. — Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026

Like many other media outlets, the site saw a massive decline in traffic in 2016 after then-Facebook changed the social media platform’s news feed algorithm to prioritize posts from family and friends over publishers. — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for the social

• asocial
• prosocial
• unsocial
• antisocial
• biosocial
• homosocial
• psychosocial
• biopsychosocial