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public purse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /pʌblɪk ˈpɜːs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /pʌblɪk ˈpɜɹs/ (General-American)

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) A quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and used for public purposes; public funds, public money.
    • This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line. 2021 February 10, “Network News: Additional Funds Enable Preparatory Work for Ashington Reopening”, in Rail, number 924, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:
    • Money in the public purse should be spent in the public interest.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
public purses Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

disbursement · power of the purse · exchequer · hold the purse strings · treasury · public debt · public interest

Translations (9)

es erario público (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · pl skarb państwa (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · cmn 國庫 /国库 (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · cmn 公款 (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · fr deniers publics (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · de öffentliche Hand (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · fi yhteiset varat (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · de Staatskasse (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes) · pl kasa państwowa (quantity of money collected by a government and used for public purposes)