Definition of socio-economic in English:
socio-economic
adjective ˌsəʊʃɪəʊiːkəˈnɒmɪkˌsəʊsɪəʊiːkəˈnɒmɪkˌsəʊsɪəʊɛkəˈnɒmɪkˌsəʊʃɪəʊɛkəˈnɒmɪk
Relating to or concerned with the interaction of social and economic factors.
people in lower socio-economic groups
Example sentencesExamples
- Students for the programmes will be selected on the basis of socio-economic status and academic potential.
- Enterprise improves the socio-economic prospects of the underprivileged.
- There can be no denying the correlation between socio-economic factors and academic success.
- All members are keen fishers and come from a wide range of professional and socio-economic backgrounds.
- The presence of a vast human population on these mountains threw up a gamut of socio-economic issues.
- Better nutrition can be the cause and the result of socio-economic development.
- You take it for granted that most of the people who you interact with socially are from a similar socio-economic background.
- It has been observed that groups living in different socio-economic status have different test scores.
- To improve the socio-economic opportunities you have to improve literacy and educational rates.
- The study measures people of the same socio-economic and educational class.
- Around the world, asthma affects people of all ethnic groups, socio-economic levels and age groups.
- Information and knowledge have now become a core aspect of the socio-economic development of this country.
- In a place like Tooting, you get a real socio-economic and ethnic mix, people whose lives probably don't cross otherwise.
- There was a great cross-section of people there from across the socio-economic scale and all walks of life.
- The end result is that ‘the benefits can be seen in children from all socio-economic backgrounds’.
- The more mobile a person is, the wider the circle of socio-economic interaction that would be available to him.
- The key factor in socio-economic developments in the early modern period was changes in population movements.
- The military pay system doesn't discriminate on the basis of socio-economic status.
- The hunger for greater socio-economic mobility is strongest among those in business.
- The biggest change had occurred at the bottom of the socio-economic scale, where there had been a significant improvement.
Derivatives
adverb
The sago palm, Metroxylon sagu, is an increasingly socio-economically important crop in South-East Asia.
Example sentencesExamples
- Critics of the old policy said the university should do more to reach out to low-income and socio-economically disadvantaged students.
- We have made the point several times that the people bearing the brunt of crime live mostly in socio-economically depressed areas.
- For both studies, participants were recruited from 3 primary care practices in geographically and socio-economically distinct regions of suburban Melbourne.
- In theory, all public schools throughout the state, whether located in socio-economically disadvantaged regions, isolated rural districts or better-off metropolitan suburbs, were allocated teachers on a common basis.