(politics, derogatory) A political ideology that uses socialist rhetoric but engages in imperialist actions. / (politics) The governmental use of imperialism to preserve the domestic social status quo.

A psychotherapeutic diagram presenting individuals as nodes (with the patient at the centre) connected by lines indicating their relationships.

(derogatory) An approach to industrial relations that focuses on making the workers contented and productive.

(history) Libya from the late 1970s to 2011.

Uncommon spelling of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

(sociology) The distance between different social groups, e.g. in terms of class, ethnicity, gender-identity, sexual-identity, etc.

(proxemics) To maintain a certain distance between at least two people to contain the spread of an infectious disease.

(epidemiology) The practice of maintaining physical distance between people to reduce the spread of communicable diseases by isolating those with such diseases in quarantines, maintaining space between individuals, and prohibiting certain activities.

present participle of social distance

plural of social distance