community

Related to community: Community Bank

bedroom community

A community in which most people commute to jobs elsewhere (and thus usually only come home to sleep during the work week). Since I'm still in school, I'm not sure I want to live in a town that's such a bedroom community—I want to be able to spend time with people during the day when I'm not in class.
See also: bedroom, community

pick-up community

A community of men (often called "pick-up artists") devoted to using a specific set of strategies in order to seduce ("pick up") women. If you would just read some of those forums in the pick-up community, you would get laid a lot more!
See also: community

pillar of the community

One who is a particularly active, respected, and influential member of one's local social sphere. My grandfather was a pillar of the community because of how many people his businesses employed. She was long considered a pillar of the community, so she won the mayoral election with ease.
See also: community, of, pillar
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

a pillar of society

or

a pillar of the community

If you describe someone as a pillar of society or a pillar of the community, you mean that they are an active and respected member of a group of people. He is a pillar of society, the son every mother would love to have. My father had been a pillar of the community.
See also: of, pillar, society
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

a pillar of society

a person regarded as a particularly responsible citizen.
The use of pillar to mean ‘a person regarded as a mainstay or support for something’ is recorded from medieval times; Pillars of Society was the English title of an 1888 play by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen .
See also: of, pillar, society
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • address (one's) comments to (someone or something)
  • address comments or remarks to
  • address (one's) remarks to (someone or something)
  • away from it all
  • be in it for
  • be at a disadvantage
  • at a disadvantage
  • be more than (something)
  • be more than glad, ready, etc.
  • be out of (one's) head
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By repackaging their health care, law enforcement and other course programs under the broad category of "homeland security," community colleges can assure themselves of money through direct government programs and loans and grants to students.
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Then, they publish a community "report card" or "wellness report." Any indication that the community is adversely affected requires recommendations for combating the negative factors before they become substantial problems.
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Under NCLB, Title I schools are required to work jointly with family and community members to develop a school-family-community involvement policy.
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The master plan sets the direction for the community college, allowing for growth and change.
Groundbreaking ideas: Texas community college leaders revise their master plans to carve their niche in a highly competitive market
Regardless, some funds set community against community and certainly give the advantage to larger centers.
It's more than just the collapse of the northern forest industry
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At the same time, many toxic releases and contaminated brown-field sites occur in the North Portland Enterprise Community, an area that has a 35% poverty rate in 11 of 15 census tracts (US EPA Brownfields, 2003).
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Their name caused a stir among some who feared that this was a black radical group forming in their community. 'We do want Aboriginal people to be proud of who they are,' Penrith reflected.
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In Illinois' Naperville Community School District, the 23-member core team for the School-Family-Community Partnership meets every month and uses a committee structure to keep its meetings focused and productive.
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This makes it very difficult for the S & T community to show value-added to the warfighter.
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To give just one example, the planned joint use library at Portree in the Scottish Highlands is currently causing controversy; according to the local newspaper, "The inclusion of community facilities within the school--most notably the Portree public library--has proved an unpopular decision, with several community groups campaigning to retain the library within the centre of the village" (West Highland Free Press, 2004).
What makes a joint use library a community library?
66 relief for married clients who are separated and reside in community property states.
Treatment of community income for spouses living apart: Sec. 66 may relieve a separated spouse of the duty to report a portion of the other spouse's community property income. Part I of this two-part article discusses the requirements for relief under sec. 66(a) and denial of community property benefits under sec. 66(b)
However, scientists can't always do patient-oriented research on their own, which is why the community is such an important component of our success at the NIEHS.
Environmental health sciences and the community