civic-minded

See also: civicminded

English

Adjective

civic-minded (comparative more civic-minded, superlative most civic-minded)

1. Concerned about and supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society.
   • 1901, George Gissing, chapter 18, in Our Friend the Charlatan:

     "You have to teach ‘Blessed are the civic-minded, for they shall profit by their civism.’"

   • 1993 September 19, William Safire, “On Language: Linguaclip”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 April 2014:

     [W]hen the "H.O.V. lane" is activated . . . a lane is reserved for these civic-minded, traffic-reducing car poolers.

   • 2008 June 30, Jeremy Caplan, “The Citizen Watchdogs of Web 2.0”, in Time, retrieved 21 April 2014:

     Civic-minded techies are increasingly bringing Web 2.0 to political activism, developing new watchdog tools that open up congressional machinery for ordinary citizens to scrutinize and critique.

Derived terms

• civic-mindedly
• civic-mindedness

 

Related terms

• civism

Translations

supportive of policies and practices that serve the interests of society

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 有公民意識的／有公民意识的 (yǒu gōngmín yìshì de)

• German: sozial engagiert
• Japanese: 市民志向の (しみんしこうの, shimin-shikō no)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: иргэний сэтгэлгээтэй (irgenii setgelgeetej)

References

• “civic-minded”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.