common good
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈkɑːmən ɡʊd/
- Formal
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bien común
- The greater public authorities should understand the common good and direct the intermediate and smaller social groups toward it.
- pursue the common good
- promote the common good
- serve the common good
And I'm going to make the common good pitch to you first.
- And I'm going to make the common good pitch to you first.
- There is no common good for humankind.
- And So what they think about is the common good, not the individualism.
- But as as human beings evolved, there came to be something called the common good.
- And when you're franchising, you have a team and we're all in it for the same common good.
- That was we gave that up wearing a mask was giving up our individual choice for the common good.
- So that we become less polarized and more, you know, kind of centered around something like the common good.
- One would be for some sort of genuine common good or common goods.
- The President's Award for the Advancement of the Common Good was established just last year.
Examples
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The contributions of professional arts education associations to the common good are an important point.
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When each part does so, it contributes to the good of the whole or the common good.
Academic text (2008) -
But we have to think of the common good.
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A few of us making decisions on a global basis for the common good.
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Academic freedom serves the common good and not the interests of any individual or group.
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I devoted my whole life to prove that if we work together, we can reach a common good.
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At the vital center of CST is the theme of the common good.
Academic text (2008) -
Logically, then, these professional associations also contribute to the common good because they represent activities of value to society.
Academic text (1992) -
Social cohesion is better, people are more willing to act together for the common good, there's greater public spiritedness, and people are less out for themselves.
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In a thriving community, everyone works together for the common good to ensure a better quality of life.
Synonyms
2
9.9
The health and happiness of the public
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'benefit of all members' is transparently derived from 'common' (shared) + 'good' (benefit); the phrase composes straightforwardly to mean a benefit belonging to the group. This is a cross-linguistically frequent, compositional pattern and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Common good may come from the simple image of a village well or shared field that everyone used. The common resource gave food or water for the good of the whole community, so the phrase now means 'the benefit of all'.