Definition of "social function" [social function]

• A vaguely specified social event (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The Cadmuses and I have an important social function this evening."
• "While the club members were a little frightened at the idea of these East-siders coming, my guests understood and met every convention of the occasion before, during, and after dinner, as if it was an accustomed social function with them."
• "Sanitation, which is an important juridical and social function of the modern State, has made no little progress in Italy, where it is regulated, in general, for all the kingdom by the law of 7 August,"