civic society
Noun
Meaning
civic society (plural civic societies)
(UK) A voluntary body or society which aims to represent the needs of a local community.
Examples
Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.
The greatest problem for the human race, to the solution of which Nature drives man, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law among men.
When two-thirds or three-quarters of the C. E. O. s in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think. . . A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.