semi-social

Professional associations such as QWC have semi-social events, such as book launches, industry talks and fun stuff during NaNo, as well as maintaining a magazine, e-newsletter, blog, and soon to be open forum.

Professional Development for Writers: 10 Simple Ideas « Write Anything 2010

Writing – like all of the arts – is a semi-social activity.

Those Pesky Minority Poets : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

I believe this is due to several factors, here are two I pay attention to: 1. There is a sense of "empowering" freedom when you participate in semi-social contexts on the net.

Byte Murder 2005

It was manifestly a meeting of Liberals, semi-social and semi-political — so arranged that ladies might feel that some interest in politics was allowed to them, and perhaps some influence also.

Phineas Finn 2004

He was a thoroughly hard-working man, doing pretty well in the world, for he had a good house over his head, and always could find raiment and bread for his wife and eight children; but, nevertheless, he was an unhappy man because he suffered from political grievances, or, I should more correctly say, that his grievances were semi-political and semi-social.

Phineas Finn 2004

The visits to his broker varied from semi-social chats to discussions of the safety of eight per cent investments, and

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

He discovered during several tentative semi-social calls that employers were not interested in a young man who was only going to “try it for a few months or so.”

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

She saw him perhaps only several times a year, often in a-- in a-- in a semi-social manner.

Friedrich Hayek: A Biography 2001

On any number of occasions, he has had, what can only be described as semi-social get-togethers with people who have supported his cause.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Elian Gonzalez Case: Organizers Call for Peaceful Demonstration; Miami Relatives Remain Defiant - April 13, 2000 2000

Rowen, entitled "America's Most Powerful Private Club," with a sub-title, "How a semi-social organization of the very biggest businessmen -- discreetly shielded from public scrutiny -- is 'advising' the government on its top policy decisions."

The Invisible Government Dan Smoot 1958