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civics

[ siv-iks ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)
  1. the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens.


civics

/ ˈsɪvɪks /

noun

  1. the study of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship
  2. the study of government and its workings


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Word History and Origins

Origin of civics1

1880–85, Americanism; civic, -ics

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Example Sentences

Other judges have been giving defendants civics lessons on how democracy works.

The pristine, grassy circle around it transformed into an open-air civics forum, with gospel choirs, daily speeches, voter registration booths and a public vegetable garden.

The high school civics teacher hopes to make “a lot of small, technical fixes” to the sweeping changes approved earlier this year to expand access to voting.

Bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress last month would provide $1 billion for states to bolster their civics education.

The concerns educators have about teaching the election process during this polarized political era come amid growing calls for a reemphasis on civics education as a way to increase understanding of how government operates and why it even exists.

But when their students asked them how they could teach civics if they could not vote, they took to the streets.

We stopped teaching civics in our public schools and outsourced the mechanics of government to “School House Rock.”

But from the looks of it, you should expect all the explosions, and none of the civics.

Although I suppose living in New Jersey is civics lesson enough.

Is the study of society undertaken with a willful ignorance of moral philosophy, theology, civics, and Econ 101.

The study of history and civilization, of sociology and civics, will do much in the first direction.

To indicate this more clearly they have applied to the study the name of "Community Civics."

The works and biographies of great men furnish many opportunities for incidental instruction in civics.

We already see advances both in the purpose and the plan of civics teaching and in the literature prepared for the schools.

As society is constituted the ideal has no place, not even standing room, in the arena of civics.

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