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▸ adjective: Open to all members of a community, as opposed to only a segment of it; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
▸ adjective: (business) Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.
▸ adjective: Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.
▸ adjective: Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.
▸ adjective: Pertaining to a person in the capacity in which they deal with other people on a formal or official basis, as opposed to a personal or private capacity; official, professional.
▸ adjective: (not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
▸ adjective: (archaic)
▸ adjective: Pertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized; international, supernational.
▸ adjective: Now chiefly in public spirit and public-spirited: seeking to further the best interests or well-being of the community or nation.
▸ adjective: Now only in public figure: famous, prominent, well-known.
▸ adjective: (UK, education, chiefly historical) In some older universities in the United Kingdom: open or pertaining to the whole university, as opposed to a constituent college or an individual staff member or student.
▸ adjective: (obsolete)
▸ adjective: Of or pertaining to the human race as a whole; common, universal.
▸ adjective: Chiefly in make public: of a work: printed or otherwise published.
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
▸ noun: (countable)
▸ noun: Preceded by a possessive determiner such as my, your, or their: a group of people who support a particular person, especially a performer, a writer, etc.; an audience, a following.
▸ noun: (often public relations) Often preceded by the and a qualifying word: a particular demographic or group of people, or segment of the population, sharing some common characteristic.
▸ noun: (sociology) A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other.
▸ noun: (obsolete)
▸ noun: Chiefly preceded by the: a collective body of a politically organized nation or state; a body politic, a nation, a state; also, the interest or well-being of such a collective body; the common good.
▸ noun: (US, university slang) At Harvard University: a penalty imposed on a student involving a grade reduction which is communicated to the student's parents or guardian.
▸ noun: (uncountable) Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.
▸ verb: (transitive, originally Scotland, archaic) To make (something) openly or widely known; to publicize, to publish.
▸ noun: (non-native speakers' English, neologism) An internet publication.
▸ noun: (informal) Short for public house (“an inn, a pub”); also (dated), in full public bar: the more basic bar in a public house, as contrasted with the lounge bar or saloon bar which has more comfortable seats, personalized service, etc. [(UK, formal) A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.]
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