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public

/puhb-lik/US // ˈpʌb lɪk //UK // (ˈpʌblɪk) //

公共,公众,公开,公共的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole:public funds; a public nuisance.
    • : done, made, acting, etc., for the community as a whole: public prosecution.
    • : open to all persons: a public meeting.
    • : of, relating to, or being in the service of a community or nation, especially as a government officer: a public official.
    • : maintained at the public expense and under public control: a public library; a public road.
    • : generally known: The fact became public.
    • : familiar to the public; prominent: public figures.
    • : open to the view of all; existing or conducted in public: a public dispute.
    • : pertaining or devoted to the welfare or well-being of the community: public spirit.
    • : of or relating to all humankind; universal.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the people constituting a community, state, or nation.
    • : a particular group of people with a common interest, aim, etc.: the book-buying public.
    • : British Informal. a tavern; public house.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.community, general

Examples

  • Today, the solution that she built moves into public beta and will compete at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with other startups for $100,000 and the Disrupt Cup.

  • The filings have been at the center of a legal fight between the impeached president and Democrats, who have demanded that he make the contents available to the American public.

  • During the most recent fiscal year, which ended in June, it rose again, to 314, according to the Cook County public guardian’s office.

  • No Silicon Valley startup has gone public yet this year, but that bleak stretch is about to end.

  • In 2015, the Obama-Biden administration orchestrated Mission Innovation, a compact among 20 countries to double public funding for energy RD&D over five years.

  • When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

  • Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.

  • Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.

  • Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.

  • Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

  • As such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.

  • Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.

  • Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.

  • It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.

  • It will be a busy session; and I want to see if I can't become a useful public man.