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social responsibility

 
 
noun [U] SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

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› the practice of producing goods and services in a way that is not harmful to society or the environment: The whole area of social responsibility is becoming much more important to the consumer. Corporate social responsibility is an issue on which we can judge even the smallest company.
(Definition of social responsibility noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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