OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 8739

public

/ˈpʌblɪk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
público
Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.
Clear away! There was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away, or couldn't have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done in a minute. Every movable was packed off, a…
[O]ur last advices from Spain inform us, that the prince of Asturias had made his public entry into Madrid in great splendour.
público
Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.
I knew a brazen minister of state, / Who bore for twice ten years the publick hate. / In every mouth the question most in vogue / Was, When will they turn out this odious rogue?
Money, being the instrument of an important public and private purpose, is rightly regarded as wealth; but everything else which serves any human purpose, and which nature does not…
público
Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.
Eager to find material for stories, and bent on making them original in plot, if not masterly in execution, […] she excited the suspicions of public librarians by asking for works…
public housing public officer public prosecutor public servant