soc

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Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
6
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/səʊʃ/ (UK)
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/səʊʃ/ (UK) · /soʊʃ/ (US) · /sɒk/ · /sɑk/ · /sɒk/ (UK) · /sɑk/ (US)

Definition of soc

15 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (slang, uncountable)Sociology or social science.
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noun

  1. (slang, uncountable)Sociology or social science.
  2. (countable, slang)Upper class youth.
    “We get jumped by the Socs. I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.”
  3. (UK)A society (circle, club, interest group).
    “Are you part of any socs this year?”
  4. (UK, historical, uncountable)The lord's power or privilege of holding a court in a district, as in manor or lordship; jurisdiction of causes, and the limits of that jurisdiction.
    “As proprietors of the soc, the lords claimed a great number of fees and perquisites, payable by all classes of people, whether free or servile, who negotiated any affairs within the soc, and which no doubt formed in themselves a considerable source of revenue.”
    “Doubts have recently been cast upon Maitland's view that the Anglo-Saxon "sac and soc" included the right to hold a petty court, to compel tenants to attend it, and to take profits from it.”
  5. (UK, obsolete, uncountable)An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township in which the mill stands.
  6. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of soc (“upper class youth”).
  7. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of system on a chip.
  8. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of special operations command.
  9. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of separation of concerns.
  10. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable)Initialism of standard outcue.
  11. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Abbreviation of state of charge.
  12. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, standard, uncountable)Initialism of standard of care.
  13. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of SOC.

name

  1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of System and Organization Controls.
  2. (Singapore, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of standard obstacle course.

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Etymology

Abbreviation of sociology and social.

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