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As a noun, the whole body politic, or the aggregate of the citizens of a state, nation, or municipality. The community at large, without reference to the geographical limits of any corporation like a city, town, or county; the people. As an adjective, open to all; notorious. Open to common use. Belonging to the people at large; relating to or affecting the whole people of a state, nation, or community; not limited or restricted to any particular class of the community. public 1) n. the people of the nation, state, county, district or municipality, which the government serves. 2) adj. referring to any agency, interest, property, or activity which is under the authority of the government or which belongs to the people. This distinguishes public from private interests as with public and private schools, public and private utilities, public and private hospitals, public and private lands, and public and private roads. public (Affecting people), adjective civic, civil, common, communal, country-wide, federal, general, government, governmental, municipal, national, social, societal, state Associated concepts: public authorities, public benefit, pubbic benefit corporation, public business, public charge, pubbic charity, public convenience, public corporation, public document, public function, public funds, public good, public improvements, public interest, public necessity, public nooice, public nuisance, public office, public policy, public purrose, public safety, public sector, public service commission, public use, public utilities, public welfare, public works Foreign phrases: Pacta privata juri publico derogare non possunt.Private contracts cannot derogate from public right. Necessitas publica major est quam privata. Public necessity is greater than private. Jura publica anteferenda privatis. Public rights are to be preferred to private parts. Privatum commodum publico cedit. Private good yields to public good. Privatum incommodum publico bono pennatur. Private inconvenience is compensated for by public benefit. Lex citius tolerare vult privatum damnum quam publicum malum. The law would rather tolerate a private loss than a public evil. public (Known), adjective acknowledged, aired, announced, apparent, broadcast, bruited about, circulated, commonly known, disclosed, disseminated, divulged, encyclical, evident, exoteric, familiar, manifest, obvious, overt, popular, proclaimed, promulgated, propagated, publicus, published, recognized, released, renowned, reported, revealed, spread abroad, ventilated, well-known, widely known public (Open), adjective accessible, approachable, attainable, available, community, free to all, not private, reachable, unbarred, unprohibited, unreserved, unrestricted Associated concepts: public accommodations, public docuuents, public domain, public hearing, public institutions, public place, public property, public records, public sale public noun body politic, citizenry, commonalty, commonwealth, community, folk, general public, laymen, nation, persons, polity, populace, population, populus, social group, society Associated concepts: public good, public use, public utility, public welfare See also: accessible, blatant, civic, common, competitive, conspicuous, famous, manifest, national, open, overt, patent, political, populace, population LAW, PUBLIC. A public law is one in which all persons have an interest. POLICY, PUBLIC. By public policy is meant that which the law encourages for
the promotion of the public good.
PUBLIC. By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the
citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a
particular place; as, the New York public.
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