Fabian Society
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- proper noun
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Sociedad Fabiana
- Unilever designed the food challenge around financial savings in response to the findings of its project with The Fabian Society to understand how Unilever can help consumers reduce avoidable food waste.
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"Our research shows that in Britain we are not a nation of callous food wasters," added Fabian Society senior researcher Natan Doron.
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It goes along with the philosophy of one of the founders of the Fabian Society.
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A Fabian Society member?
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The experiment will help the consumer goods company better understand consumer attitudes to food waste, citing Fabian Society research which indicates that more than 60 percent of adults identify food waste as a problem that needs to be solved.
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In 1884, the Fabian Society was founded in Britain to promote gradual reforms toward socialism.
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Ed Miliband delivered a thought-provoking speech at the Fabian Society annual conference.
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The Fabian Society has played a significant role in shaping the Labour Party's policies over the years.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The word 'society' clearly signals an association, so a learner who knows the constituents can infer that this is some kind of organization. However, 'Fabian' is a proper name/label whose specific association with British democratic socialism and gradual reform is cultural and not predictable from the parts, so the full meaning requires prior exposure.
Etymology
Fabian Society is named after the Roman general Fabius Maximus, who won battles by using slow, careful moves instead of quick attacks. So the name shows their idea of 'slow' and 'step-by-step' change rather than a sudden revolution.