English

Alternative forms

• neighbourship

Noun

neighborship ‎(countable and uncountable, plural neighborships)

1. The state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.

   • 1990, Carolyn Marvin, “Community and Class Order”, in When Old Technologies Were New, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 9780195063417, page 66:

     … the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity."

2. A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.

   • 2002 December 27, Cory Doctorow, “WiFi: What threat?”, in BoingBoing, retrieved 2012-02-01:

     The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts.

   • 2010 February 10, Hanspeter Spek, President, Global Operations, “Sanofi-Aventis Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript”, in Seeking Alpha, retrieved 2012-02-05:

     But we believe that Cambridge is really the heart of oncology today. And we intend to benefit from this as an environment – as a neighborship.

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