Usually means: Community organizations outside government influence.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word civil society:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil society: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. civil society: Collins English Dictionary
  3. civil-society: Wordnik
  4. civil-society, civil society: Wiktionary
  5. civil society: Dictionary.com
  6. Civil Society, Civil society: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. civil society: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (civil society)

noun:  All of the institutions, voluntary organizations and corporate bodies that are less than the state but greater than the family.
noun:  Those things expected of a democratic society, such as free speech and human rights.
noun:  (philosophy) Organized, internally peaceful human society; civilization.

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