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public-spirited en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public.
   • For the young this device has proved most excellent under the wise management of the United Hebrew Charities, an organization that gathers to its work the best thought and effort of many of our most public-spirited citizens. 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Sweaters of Jewtown”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 134:
   • He was a noted philanthropist, and played a public-spirited part in the support of the Army during the Crimean War. 1960 March 14, N. Caplan, “The Railway Member of Parliament”, in Railway Magazine, page 209:

Forms

Deriveds

public-spiritedly · public-spiritedness

Synonyms

public-hearted

Translations (2)

hu önzetlen (having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public) · hu a közjóért küzdő (having personal motivation toward the betterment of the public)