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2. Maintained for or used by the people or community: a public park. 3. Capitalized in shares of stock that can be traded on the open market: a public company. ...
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Public definition, of, pertaining to, or affecting a population or a community as a whole: See more.
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public adj. Of, concerning, or affecting the community or the people: the public good. Maintained for or used by the people or community: a public
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public (comparative more public, superlative most public) Pertaining to the affairs or official affairs of all people, not just those of a private ...
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Public Citizen

  
Fighting for safer drugs and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources, a cleaner environment, and a more open and democratic government.
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public library n. A noncommercial library often supported with public funds, intended for use by the general
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Q.Personal and public liability insurance - Is it possible to get a combined policy?Related Search:
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 I'm about to set up a small sole trader business in the UK making furniture and I am going to be moving into a small industrial unit which I will be renting. I have been advised by the people who are renting out the unit that I need to get personal and public liability insurance. I have done a few searches on the internet but I can't see any companies that have a combined policy. In other words it seems I have to get two seperate insurance policies for personal and public insurance. Is this right? Or is it the case that public liability also includes personal liability.
A.OK, I filter to US Only questions (not english only) and this came up, so I'm guessing that maybe you're not going to get many UK answers. Here in the US, and most of the rest of the world, it's true - there are TWO different kinds of liability - personal, and business. "Public" is a misnomer - public can be either personal, or business. Or maybe it's just a UK way to say 'business'. But, you CANNOT combine the two. The rating basis and coverages are WILDLY divergent. Business liability does NOT include personal liability, but it DOES extend coverage, to some extent, over employees IN THE COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT. With exclusions, of course.
  

Q.What is the difference between public health and community health?Related Search:
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 What is the difference between public health and community health? A. Public health involves the health of the nation, and community health involves doctors and other health professionals in a community. B. Public health protects the health of everyone, and community health protects the health of all those in a particular community. C. Public health gives free health care to individuals, and community health keeps the food, water supply, and general environment healthy for the community. D. Public health is concerned with the health of individuals, and community health is concerned with overall health statistics.
A.A. Public health looks at everyone from all over. We (I'm an epidemiologist) are concerned with things that may be coming down the pike and hit all of us (like bird flu, etc.). Community health mostly involves doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals that tailor interventions to a particular community's needs, and they generally don't plan out for "the bigger picture", although they do a heck a job in their locales, since they know it better.
  

Q.How will the public option put insurance companies out of business?Related Search:
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 The NHS and private insurance exist side by side in Britain. Same scenario in Australia and New Zealand. France has both private and public health care, so does Ireland. We have public schools and private schools. Private schools still thrive despite the public alternative. We have police protection and private security firms. I am confused. If government never gets anything right, and private is always better, then won't everyone stay with the private system and the public option will just go away?
A.It won't. That's just propaganda that politicians are using to pursue their personal agendas. They just hope the public is stupid enough to listen to the sound bite only and not actually think about it.
  

Q.What is the meaning of performing public service in the public interest?Related Search:
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 What is the meaning of performing public service in the public interest? What are some examples of public agencies? What kind of experience do you have with any given public agencies? Any additional info, websites, etc. regarding public service agencies would be appreciated.
A.Here is a website that may help you with your questions.
  

Q.Can you describe the difference between public goods and private goods?Related Search:
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 Can you describe the difference between public goods and private goods? Explain why government action is necessary to ensure the provision of public goods. Here is all I know: Public goods cannot be divided nor distributed to individual consumers. Public goods are a public good, they’re available to everyone. Private goods ? Help please!
A.A public good is a good whose use by others is not diminished by any person. Specifically a good is a public good if no one could be excluded from use by some action of another and the good is not rivalrous, in other words the use of one does not diminish the use by another. An example of a public good is national defense. Your receipt of national defense is rival with others and isn't diminished by your neighbors use. Another example is the light from a street lamp. Similar to this is a "common good," such as fish in the ocean. Catching a fish means the fish is diminished by others, but you cannot keep other fishermen out of the entire ocean. Another similar one is club goods. Cable television is an example of a club good. No ones usage is diminished by other people using cable, but you can exclude people from cable television such as if the cost exceeds the budget constraint of a family. A private good is a good whose usage diminishes the usage by others and where your usage could cause the exclusion of others or which you could simply exclude others. A simple example is a restaurant with one pie with eight pieces. If a party comes by and buys up the eight pieces of pie, should a ninth person come in to order it, rivalry has already consumed it. Likewise, if the pie is sold at a price which prohibits some people, or if it were sold in a woman's club then exclusion exists.
  

Q.What is the difference between Public Relations Specialists and Managers?Related Search:
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 What is the difference between Public Relations Specialists and Public Relations Managers? Other then the fact that the Public Relations Specialists is a hot job and that the Public Relations Managers get paid way more. You see I'm looking into careers and what classes I should take, etc. and I don't really know the diferences. Can anyone help?
A.A public relations manager is a more senior level public relations specialist. A manager provides more strategic oversight while managing the specialist's work.
  

Q.How good are public defenders in minimizing or dropping drug and DWI charges in New Jersey?Related Search:
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 I am being charged with DWI and posession of drugs inside of a vehicle. I am in a really tight situation and am considering just getting a public defender becuase i cannot afford a lawyer. At the preliminary they told me i prob could qualify for a public defender, but all of my friends are highly advising against it. They say that public defenders dont fight for you and that they dont care. They just work for the state and cater to the prosecuters interests more than to yours. Is this true?
A.Yes. Public defenders don't usually put very much effort into their work, and will encourage you to go along with the prosecuter in order to shift the case through as rapidly as they can. There are probably exceptions but I've only seen them on television shows.
  
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Public \Pub"lic\, a. [L. publicus, poblicus, fr. populus people:
   cf. F. public. See People.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people;
      relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community;
      -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.
      [1913 Webster]

            To the public good
            Private respects must yield.          --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

            He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of
            the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. --D.
                                                  Webster.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common;
      notorious; as, public report; public scandal.
      [1913 Webster]

            Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public
            example, was minded to put her away privily. --Matt.
                                                  i. 19.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public
      house. "The public street." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   public act or public statute (Law), an act or statute
      affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the
      courts take judicial notice.

   Public credit. See under Credit.

   Public funds. See Fund, 3.

   Public house, an inn, or house of entertainment.

   Public law.
      (a) See International law, under International.
      (b) A public act or statute.

   Public nuisance. (Law) See under Nuisance.

   Public orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3.

   Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc.
      

   Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for
      public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but
      strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed
      at the public cost.
      [1913 Webster]


From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Public \Pub"lic\, n.
   1. The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or
      community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American
      public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people;
      as, an author's public.
      [1913 Webster]

            The public is more disposed to censure than to
            praise.                               --Addison.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A public house; an inn. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
      [1913 Webster]

   In public, openly; before an audience or the people at
      large; not in private or secrecy. "We are to speak in
      public." --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]


From WordNet (r) 2.0:

public
     adj 1: not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole;
            "the public good"; "public libraries"; "public funds";
            "public parks"; "a public scandal"; "public gardens";
            "performers and members of royal families are public
            figures" [ant: private]
     2: affecting the people or community as a whole; "community
        leaders"; "community interests"; "the public welfare"
     n 1: people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in
          the eyes of the public" [syn: populace, world]
     2: a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading
        public"


From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

310 Moby Thesaurus words for "public":
   Babbittish, Everyman, John Doe, Philistine, Public, accessible,
   acknowledged, adherent, admitted, affirmed, alehouse, announced,
   apparent, appendage, associated, attendant, audience, available,
   bar, barrel house, barroom, beer garden, beer parlor, bistro,
   blatant, blind tiger, boardinghouse, body politic, bourgeois,
   bourgeoisie, broadcast, brought to notice, buff, business, buyers,
   cabaret, cafe, campy, carriage trade, catholic, cavaliere servente,
   celebrated, circulated, citizenry, citizens, civic, civil, clear,
   clear-cut, clientage, clientele, cocktail lounge, collective,
   collectivistic, common, common knowledge, common man,
   common property, commonalty, commonly known, commonplace,
   commonwealth, communal, communistic, community, community at large,
   commutual, conjoint, conjunct, conspicuous, constituency,
   consumers, cooperative, cortical, cosmopolitan, courtier,
   cultural community, current, custom, dangler, declared, demos,
   dependent, diffused, disciple, disreputable, disseminated,
   distributed, dive, dorm, dormitory, doss house, dramshop,
   drinking saloon, dwellers, eminent, epidermic, estate, everybody,
   everyman, everyone, everywoman, exomorphic, exposed, exterior,
   external, extrinsic, familiar, famous, fan, flagrant, fleabag,
   flophouse, flunky, folk, folks, follower, followers, following,
   free, fringe, general, general public, gentry, gin mill,
   government, governmental, groggery, grogshop, guest house,
   habitancy, hackneyed, hanger-on, henchman, high-camp, hoi polloi,
   homely, homespun, homme de cour, honky-tonk, hospice, hostel,
   hostelry, hotel, household, illustrious, in circulation, in common,
   in print, in public, in the open, infamous, influential,
   inhabitants, inn, international, joint, kitschy, known,
   linguistic community, local, lodging house, low-camp, made public,
   make public, manifest, market, masses, men, middle class,
   multitude, municipal, mutual, nation, national, nationality,
   nightclub, notable, noted, notorious, obvious, open, openly,
   ordinary, out, outer, outermost, outlying, outmost, outside,
   outstanding, outward, outward-facing, overt, parasite, partisan,
   patent, patronage, pension, people, people at large,
   people in general, peripheral, persons, plain, platitudinous,
   plebeian, plebeians, polity, pop, populace, popular, population,
   portion, posada, pothouse, proclaimed, projected, proletariat,
   prominent, propagated, proverbial, pub, public house, publicly,
   publish, published, purchasing public, pursuer, pursuivant,
   rank and file, rathskeller, reciprocal, renowned, reported,
   roadhouse, rooming house, roundabout, rumshop, rural market,
   saloon, saloon bar, satellite, sectary, sector, seeming, segment,
   shadow, shared, social, socialistic, societal, society, speakeasy,
   special-interest group, speech community, spread, state, stated,
   stooge, suburban market, successor, suite, superficial, supporter,
   supranational, surface, tagtail, tail, talked-about, talked-of,
   taproom, tavern, telecast, televised, the citizenry,
   the general public, the people, the populace, the population,
   the public, third estate, trade, trainbearer, trite, truistic,
   unconcealed, universal, universally admitted,
   universally recognized, unrestricted, unshrouded, urban,
   vernacular, viewable, visible, votary, ward heeler, well-kenned,
   well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, whole people,
   widely known, widespread, wine shop, world, worldwide, you and me,
   youth market




From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

PUBLIC. By the term the public, is meant the whole body politic, or all the 
citizens of the state; sometimes it signifies the inhabitants of a 
particular place; as, the New York public. 
     2. A distinction has been made between the terms public and general, 
they are sometimes used as synonymous. The former term is applied strictly 
to that which concerns all the citizens and every member of the state; while 
the latter includes a lesser, though still a large portion of the community. 
Greenl. Ev. Sec. 128. 
     3. When the public interests and its rights conflict with those of an 
individual, the latter must yield. Co. Litt. 181. if, for example, a road is 
required for public convenience, and in its course it passes on the ground 
occupied by a house, the latter must be torn down, however valuable it may 
be to the owner. In such a case both law and justice require that the owner 
shall be fully indemnified. 
     4. This term is sometimes joined to other terms, to designate those 
things which have a relation to the public; as, a public officer, a public 
road, a public passage, a public house. 





 
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