Synonyms for social contract
so·cial con·tract

Princeton's WordNet

1. social contractnoun

   an implicit agreement among people that results in the organization of society; individual surrenders liberty in return for protection

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1. • Agreement

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1. David Yelland:

   Clearly Meghan and Harry don't want to go along with what you might call the social contract... where they get kicked around in the media but it's a stiff upper lip and you carry on.

2. Sebastian Strangio:

   This populist strategy merely reproduces an old pattern in Cambodian politics, which is that improvements in people's lives are treated as a blessing from the powerful, rather than as part of a democratic social contract.

3. California Gov. Gavin Newsom:

   There's a social contract here. People I think recognize the need to do more and to meet this moment, people will self-regulate their behavior, they'll begin to adjust and adapt as they have been quite significantly.

4. Chris Hughes ':

   It is such a fundamental idea behind America that if Mark Zuckerberg work hard, Mark Zuckerberg can get ahead — and Mark Zuckerberg certainly don't live in poverty. But that isn't true today, and it hasn't been true in the country for decades, i believe that unless we make significant changes today, the income inequality in our country will continue to grow and call into question the very nature of our social contract.

5. Diego Benavides:

   We extended the social contract that we have with the community until 2018, fortunately, the stoppage did not impact our output and there was no damage to the mine.