community

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♦♦♦ com|mu|nity /kəmj'uːnɪti/ (communities)
1 [N-SING-COLL] usu the N
The community is all the people who live in a particular area or place.
He's well liked by people in the community...
The growth of such vigilante gangs has worried community leaders, police and politicians.
2 [N-COUNT-COLL] usu supp N
A particular community is a group of people who are similar in some way.
The police haven't really done anything for the black community in particular.
...the business community.
3 [N-UNCOUNT]
Community is friendship between different people or groups, and a sense of having something in common.
Two of our greatest strengths are diversity and community.com|mu|nity cen|tre (community centres)
in AM, use community center
[N-COUNT]
A community centre is a place that is specially provided for the people, groups, and organizations in a particular area, where they can go in order to meet one another and do things.com|mu|nity col|lege (community colleges)
[N-COUNT]
A community college is a local college where students from the surrounding area can take courses in practical or academic subjects. (AM)com|mu|nity po|lic|ing
[N-UNCOUNT]
Community policing is a system in which policemen work only in one particular area of the community, so that everyone knows them.com|mu|nity ser|vice
[N-UNCOUNT]
Community service is unpaid work that criminals sometimes do as a punishment instead of being sent to prison.
He was sentenced to 140 hours community service.gat|ed com|mu|nity (gated communities)
[N-COUNT]
A gated community is an area of houses and sometimes shops that is surrounded by a wall or fence and has an entrance that is guarded. (mainly AM)

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