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Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Able to be known or seen by everyone; happening without concealment; open to general view.
- 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.
- (business) Of a company: having shares of stock traded publicly, for example, through a stock market.
- Pertaining to the people as a whole, as opposed to a group of people; concerning the whole community or country.
- Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the government or state on behalf of the community, rather than by a private organization.
- 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.
- (not comparable, by extension, object-oriented programming) Of an object: accessible to the program in general, not only to a class or subclass.
- Pertaining to nations collectively, or to nations regarded as civilized; international, supernational.
- Now chiefly in public spirit and public-spirited: seeking to further the best interests or well-being of the community or nation.
- Now only in public figure: famous, prominent, well-known.
- (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.
- Of or pertaining to the human race as a whole; common, universal.
- Chiefly in make public: of a work: printed or otherwise published.
Substantiivi
- (non-native speakers' English, neologism) An internet publication.
- (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
- 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.
- (informal) Ellipsis of public house or public bar (“an inn, a pub: 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.”).
- (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.
- (sociology) A group of people sharing some common cultural, political, or social interest, but not necessarily having any interactions with each other.
- 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.
- (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.
- (uncountable) Chiefly in in public: the presence of spectators or people generally; the open.
Verbi
Esimerkit
- Earlier this month Godwin had to make a public apology to the family of Daniel Morgan after the collapse of a £30m inquiry into his murder in 1987.
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.
- A mere 3% of the more than 1,000 people interviewed said they actually knew what the conference was about. It seems safe to say public awareness of the Convention on Biological Awareness in Nagoya - and its goal of safeguarding wildlife - is close to non-existent.
- In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
- From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
- But culture's total budget is a tiny proportion of all public spending; it is one of the government's most visible success stories.
- Some are left for dead on rubbish tips, in refuge bags or at public toilets.
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
- Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.
- Bush and Blair stand condemned by their own publics and face imminent political extinction.
- “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”
- The public has a right to know.
- The city needs more public facilities.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | publics |
| Komparatiivi | more public |
| Superlatiivi | most public |
(countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
The diverse public is symbolized in this sculpture situated in Montreal, Canada named "La Foule illuminée".