public

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noun

1 the public people in general

ADJECTIVE

▪ general

VERB + THE PUBLIC

▪ educate, inform

▪

The government was slow to inform the public about the health hazards of asbestos.

▪ protect

▪ serve

▪ mislead

▪

He accused the administration of deliberately misleading the public on this issue.

▪ be open to

▪

The house is open to the public.

PREPOSITION

▪ in public

▪

He rarely appears in public these days.

PHRASES

▪ a member of the public

2 group of people with sth in common

ADJECTIVE

▪ book-buying, movie-going, paying, reading, sporting (esp. BrE), theatre-going/theater-going, travelling/traveling, viewing, voting, etc.

▪

Satellite television has provided the viewing public with a wide choice.

▪ broader, larger, wider

▪

Her work is now available to a wider public.

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adj.

Public is used with these nouns: ↑acceptance, ↑access, ↑acclaim, ↑accommodation, ↑accountability, ↑accountancy, ↑accusation, ↑acknowledgement, ↑act, ↑address, ↑administration, ↑affair, ↑agency, ↑agenda, ↑agitation, ↑alarm, ↑amenity, ↑anger, ↑announcement, ↑anxiety, ↑apathy, ↑apology, ↑appearance, ↑appetite, ↑appointment, ↑appreciation, ↑approval, ↑archive, ↑arena, ↑art, ↑assembly, ↑asset, ↑assistance, ↑association, ↑attention, ↑attitude, ↑auction, ↑authority, ↑awareness, ↑backlash, ↑bar, ↑bathroom, ↑benefactor, ↑benefit, ↑body, ↑broadcaster, ↑building, ↑bus, ↑campaign, ↑care, ↑celebration, ↑cemetery, ↑censure, ↑ceremony, ↑character, ↑choice, ↑clamour, ↑clinic, ↑collection, ↑college, ↑comment, ↑commission, ↑commitment, ↑company, ↑concern, ↑concert, ↑condemnation, ↑confession, ↑confidence, ↑consciousness, ↑consultation, ↑consumption, ↑controversy, ↑corporation, ↑corruption, ↑criticism, ↑curiosity, ↑cynicism, ↑danger, ↑database, ↑debate, ↑debt, ↑decency, ↑declaration, ↑demand, ↑demonstration, ↑denunciation, ↑dialogue, ↑diplomacy, ↑disagreement, ↑disapproval, ↑discontent, ↑discussion, ↑disgrace, ↑disgust, ↑disillusionment, ↑disorder, ↑display, ↑dispute, ↑dissatisfaction, ↑distrust, ↑disturbance, ↑document, ↑domain, ↑donation, ↑duty, ↑education, ↑embarrassment, ↑employee, ↑employer, ↑employment, ↑engagement, ↑enquiry, ↑enterprise, ↑entertainment, ↑enthusiasm, ↑entity, ↑esteem, ↑examination, ↑execution, ↑exhibit, ↑exhibition, ↑expectation, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑exposure, ↑expression, ↑face, ↑facility, ↑faith, ↑fascination, ↑favour, ↑fear, ↑feeling, ↑feud, ↑figure, ↑finance, ↑footpath, ↑forum, ↑fund, ↑funding, ↑funeral, ↑furore, ↑fury, ↑gallery, ↑garden, ↑gathering, ↑gaze, ↑grief, ↑hall, ↑health, health service, ↑hearing, ↑high school, ↑highway, ↑holiday, ↑hospital, ↑hostility, ↑housing, ↑humiliation, ↑hygiene, ↑hysteria, ↑image, ↑imagination, ↑importance, ↑impression, ↑inconvenience, ↑indecency, ↑indifference, ↑indignation, ↑inspection, ↑institution, ↑interest, ↑investment, ↑knowledge, ↑land, ↑launch, ↑lavatory, ↑lecture, ↑letter, ↑librarian, ↑library, ↑life, ↑loo, ↑manifestation, ↑meeting, ↑memorial, ↑memory, ↑menace, ↑mind, ↑money, ↑monopoly, ↑monument, ↑mood, ↑moral, ↑morality, ↑mourning, ↑museum, ↑nature, ↑need, ↑notice, ↑notoriety, ↑nuisance, ↑office, ↑official, ↑opinion, ↑opposition, ↑order, ↑outcry, ↑outrage, ↑ownership, ↑panic, ↑park, ↑participation, ↑path, ↑penance, ↑perception, ↑performance, ↑phone, ↑place, ↑policy, ↑praise, ↑procession, ↑proclamation, ↑profile, ↑project, ↑prominence, ↑property, ↑prosecutor, ↑protest, ↑purse, ↑radio, ↑rally, ↑reaction, ↑reading, ↑realm, ↑rebuke, ↑reception, ↑recognition, ↑record, ↑referendum, ↑register, ↑regulation, ↑relation, ↑report, ↑representative, ↑reprimand, ↑reputation, ↑resistance, ↑resource, ↑response, ↑responsibility, ↑restroom, ↑revenue, ↑rhetoric, ↑ridicule, ↑rift, ↑ritual, ↑road, ↑row, ↑safety, ↑sanitation, ↑scandal, ↑scepticism, ↑school, ↑scorn, ↑scrutiny, ↑sculpture, ↑sector, ↑self, ↑sentiment, ↑servant, ↑service, ↑session, ↑setting, ↑sex, ↑shame, ↑show, ↑showing, ↑sidewalk, ↑space, ↑speaker, ↑spectacle, ↑speech, ↑spending, ↑sphere, ↑spirit, ↑spotlight, ↑squabble, ↑squalor, ↑square, ↑stance, ↑stand, ↑standing, ↑statement, ↑stature, ↑subsidy, ↑success, ↑support, ↑sympathy, ↑system, ↑talk, ↑taste, ↑telecommunications, ↑telephone, ↑television, ↑tender, ↑testimony, ↑toilet, ↑transit, ↑transport, ↑transportation, ↑trial, ↑trust, ↑trustee, ↑understanding, ↑undertaking, ↑unease, ↑university, ↑unrest, ↑uproar, ↑utility, ↑venue, ↑view, ↑virtue, ↑visibility, ↑ward, ↑watchdog, ↑welfare, ↑will, ↑worship