Definitions for publics

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publics pub·lic

Spelling: [puhb-lik]

IPA: /ˈpʌb lɪk/

Publics is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in publics (bcilpsu).

Definitions for publics

noun

1. the people constituting a community, state, or nation.
2. a particular group of people with a common interest, aim, etc.:
3. British Informal. a tavern; public house.

Idioms

1. go public, to issue stock for sale to the general public. to present private or previously concealed information, news, etc., to the public; make matters open to public view:
2. in public, not in private; in a situation open to public view or access; publicly:
3. make public, to cause to become known generally, as through the news media:

adjective

1. of, relating to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole:
2. done, made, acting, etc., for the community as a whole:
3. open to all persons:
4. of, relating to, or being in the service of a community or nation, especially as a government officer:
5. maintained at the public expense and under public control:
6. generally known:
7. familiar to the public; prominent:
8. open to the view of all; existing or conducted in public:
9. pertaining or devoted to the welfare or well-being of the community:
10. of or relating to all humankind; universal.

Origin of publics

1400-50; Latin pūblicus (earlier pōblicus, pōplicus, akin to populus people); replacing late Middle English publique Middle French Latin, as above

Examples for publics

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

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

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

His forte was not in public speaking, but he hoped they would take the will for the deed.

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

The public offices at Albany were finished shortly after my arrival.

The public road was thronged with people on their way to Olympia.

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

The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse.

You will never find us taking advantage of the necessities of the public.