Definition of "civil-society" []

• Attributive form of civil society, noun. (adjective)

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• "Teresa Deng, Dot Baai's founder, calls civil-society organizations "the eyes of the community" because they bring attention to local challenges that might otherwise go unaddressed."
• ""This has to be with the participation of the political parties, political powers and civil-society organizations.""
• "The day after we left, before street demonstrations began, emails to our friends in civil-society organizations suddenly couldn't be delivered -- the regime had preemptively cut off communications to anyone it saw as a potential leader outside of its control, however peaceful or seemingly irrelevant."