"friendly society" meaning in English

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      "form": "friendly societies",
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        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 635",
          "text": "At a lower social level the eighteenth century saw the launching of pioneer insurance schemes by industrial firms for their employees and the proliferation of working-class friendly societies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various early types of life insurance or mutual support associations."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "burial society"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-friendly_society-en-noun-axe21Njy",
      "links": [
        [
          "life insurance",
          "life insurance"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "benefit society"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "friendly society"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "friendly societies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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      "expansion": "friendly society (plural friendly societies)",
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      "word": "burial society"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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        {
          "ref": "1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 635",
          "text": "At a lower social level the eighteenth century saw the launching of pioneer insurance schemes by industrial firms for their employees and the proliferation of working-class friendly societies.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any of various early types of life insurance or mutual support associations."
      ],
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        [
          "life insurance",
          "life insurance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "benefit society"
    }
  ],
  "word": "friendly society"
}