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Princeton's WordNet

  1. common good, commonwealnoun

    the good of a community

Wiktionary

  1. common goodnoun

    the general interest of the population as a whole.

  2. common goodnoun

    a good that is rivalrous and non-excludable

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  1. common good

    The common good refers to the overall wellbeing, benefit, or collective interests of a community or society as a whole. It emphasizes the shared good of all members, promoting fairness, equality, and opportunity. The common good can encompass various elements including basic rights, security, education, health, social justice, and environmental sustainability.

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  1. Common good

    The common good or common weal is a term that can refer to several different concepts. In the popular meaning, the common good describes a specific "good" that is shared and beneficial for all members of a given community. This is also how the common good is broadly defined in philosophy, ethics, and political science. However there is no strict definition of the common good for each situation. The good that is common between person A and person B may not be the same as between person A and person C. Thus the common good can often change, although there are some things — such as the basic requirements for staying alive: food, water, and shelter — that are always good for all people.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of common good in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of common good in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of common good in a Sentence

  1. Ayn Rand:

    America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

  2. Joe Biden:

    We served together for 25 years( in the Senate). We disagreed, but we were never disagreeable with one another -- not one time that I can think of, i found Bob to be a man of principle, pragmatism and enormous integrity. He came into the arena with certain guiding principles to begin with : devotion to country, to fair play, to decency, to dignity, to honor, to -- literally -- attempting to find the common good.

  3. Jeremy Corbyn:

    We challenge the narrative that only the individual matters, and the collective is irrelevant, instead we say the common good is the aspiration of all of us.

  4. New Rochelle Mayor Noam Bramson:

    The heaviest burdens have fallen upon the members of Young Israel, many are quarantined, which is enormously disruptive to their daily lives, and yet there has been a sense of commitment to the common good.

  5. Pope Pius XI:

    It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.


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