<HEAD><TITLE>DICTIONARY: public-access - public television</TITLE></HEAD>
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<A NAME="publicaccess">
<B>public-access, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> available for public use, especially of cable television. <BR> <I>Ex. By law, only programs that are obscene or call for the commission of crimes can be banned from public-access cable (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicaccountant">
<B>public accountant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an accountant who makes his services available to anyone for a fee or on a contract basis. <BR> <I>Ex. Auditing is one of the chief jobs of public accountants (R. K. Mautz).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=certified public accountant.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="publicaddresssystem">
<B>public-address system,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an apparatus consisting of one or more microphones, amplifiers, and loudspeakers, by which speeches, announcements, music, or a motion-picture sound track may be made audible to a large audience, as on a public street or in an auditorium; P.A. system. </DL>
<A NAME="publican">
<B>publican, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(British.) the keeper of a public house. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a tax collector of ancient Rome. <DD><B> b. </B>any collector of tolls or tribute. </DL>
<A NAME="publicassistance">
<B>public assistance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) government payments under social security to needy persons, especially in the form of an annual income for the aged, the blind, and the disabled. </DL>
<A NAME="publication">
<B>publication, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a book, newspaper, or magazine; anything that is published. <BR> <I>Ex. "Boy's Life" is a publication of the Boy Scouts.</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> (Abbr:) pub. <DD><B> 2. </B>the printing and selling of books, newspapers, or magazines. <DD><B> 3. </B>the first public sale of a book, magazine, or newspaper. <BR> <I>Ex. The first printing was swallowed up before publication (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 4a. </B>the act of making known; public announcement. <BR> <I>Ex. There is prompt publication of any important news over the radio. The widespread publication of traffic laws helps prevent accidents.</I> (SYN) promulgation, dissemination. <DD><B> b. </B>the fact or state of being made known. </DL>
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<A NAME="publiccharge">
<B>public charge,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an indigent person who requires support or maintenance from public funds. <BR> <I>Ex. Since the wife ... had no way to support herself, it was her husband's job to see that she did not become a public charge (Harper's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicdefender">
<B>public defender,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an attorney designated by a court or other governmental agency, and paid from public funds, to defend persons involved in litigation or legal difficulties who do not have the means to hire their own attorney. </DL>
<A NAME="publicdomain">
<B>public domain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> lands belonging to the state or the Federal government; public lands. <BR><I>expr. <B>in the public domain,</B> </I>(of works, material, inventions, trade names, and the like) available for unrestricted use because unprotected by copyright, patent, or trademark. <BR> <I>Ex. Shakespeare's plays are in the public domain.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicenemy">
<B>public enemy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing, especially a criminal, that is a menace to the public. </DL>
<A NAME="publicfunds">
<B>public funds,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) the stock of the national debt, considered as a mode of investment. </DL>
<A NAME="publichealth">
<B>public health,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the health of the community taken as a whole. <DD><B> 2. </B>measures taken to maintain and improve the general level of health, such as by preventive medicine, immunization, sanitation, and the organization of medical and hospital facilities. </DL>
<A NAME="publichouse">
<B>public house,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(British.) a place where alcoholic liquor is sold to be drunk; saloon or tavern. <DD><B> 2. </B>an inn; hotel. </DL>
<A NAME="publichousing">
<B>public housing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) housing owned or operated by a municipality or other public body, usually through Federal aid, designed especially for families with low income. <BR> <I>Ex. A neighborhood that we remembered as an appalling slum ... is now abloom with public housing (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicinterest">
<B>public-interest, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with class action suits and other legal means of protecting the interests of the public. </DL>
<B>publicist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person skilled or trained in law or in public affairs. <DD><B> 2. </B>a writer on law, politics, or public affairs. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who publicizes. <BR> <I>Ex. Dr. Tsuru is a leading publicist for the neutralist view of world affairs (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=press agent.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="publicity">
<B>publicity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>public notice. <BR> <I>Ex. the publicity that actors desire.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the measures used for getting, or the process of getting, public notice. <BR> <I>Ex. a campaign of publicity for a new automobile.</I> (SYN) advertising, propaganda. <DD><B> 3. </B>the articles, films, or devices, used in such measures or process. <BR> <I>Ex. to write publicity.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the condition of being public; being seen by or known to many. <BR> <I>Ex. in the publicity of the streets.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicize">
<B>publicize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-cized,</B> <B>-cizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to give publicity to. <BR> <I>Ex. The means of picking the fights and publicizing them will be the classic device of Congressional inquiry (New York Times).</I> adj. <B>publicizable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="publiclands">
<B>public lands,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> all of the territory or land belonging to a national government, especially land that is open to sale, grant, or other method of disposal. </DL>
<A NAME="publiclaw">
<B>public law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the branch of law that regulates the relationships between individuals and the government. One part of the public law defines and limits the powers of the government. Criminal law and international law are part of public law. <DD><B> 2. </B>an act or statute that applies to the general public. </DL>
<A NAME="publicly">
<B>publicly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>in a public manner; openly. <BR> <I>Ex. Money for an election campaign must be recorded publicly.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>by the public. <BR> <I>Ex. The mayor was thought of publicly as the best man for the job.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicopinion">
<B>public opinion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the opinion of the people in a country or community on a matter of public interest or concern. <BR> <I>Ex. to make a survey of public opinion on the issue of gun-control laws. Public opinion can be wrong, misguided, mistaken (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicpolicy">
<B>public policy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the policy or general purpose of the law that protects the public from acts contrary to its welfare even when there is no positive statutory prohibition. </DL>
<B>public relations,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the activities of an organization, institution, or individual that are designed to win the favor of the general public and promote a better understanding of policies and purposes, especially by giving out information through the newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and motion pictures. <DD><B> 2. </B>the attitude of the public toward a particular organization, institution, or individual. <BR> <I>Ex. to maintain good public relations.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the business of such activities. <BR> <I>Ex. to take up public relations as a career.</I> <DD> (Abbr:) PR (no periods). </DL>
<A NAME="publicres">
<B>Public Res.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Public Resolution (used with a number). </DL>
<A NAME="publicschool">
<B>public school,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a free school maintained by taxes, especially an elementary or secondary school. <BR> <I>Ex. The chances of a private school graduate's making Who's Who are 6 to 1 over the public school man (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) an endowed private boarding school preparing students for university study or government service. adj. <B>public-school.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="publicsector">
<B>public sector,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the segment of business and industry operated or controlled by the government or its agencies. <BR> <I>Ex. Certain key branches of industry that are of a strategic nature, or that involve large but slow-yielding investments, are also developed under the auspices of the public sector (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicservant">
<B>public servant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who works for the government. <BR> <I>Ex. It is the function of every policeman to be an extremely valuable public servant (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a public-service corporation. </DL>
<A NAME="publicservice">
<B>public service,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>government service. <BR> <I>Ex. His career, apart from public service sojourns in Washington, has been ... closely identified with Boston (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a service performed by a public utility. <DD><B> 3. </B>something done for the general good. <BR> <I>Ex. The Citizens Union's annual award for public service will be presented tomorrow (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicservicecorporation">
<B>public-service corporation,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a corporation formed or chartered to give service to the general public, as by furnishing gas or electricity, or bus or railroad transportation. </DL>
<A NAME="publicspeaking">
<B>public speaking,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the art or practice of making a speech before an audience. <BR> <I>Ex. Training in effective public speaking is an essential part of training for leadership in any field (W. Hayes Yeager).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="publicspirited">
<B>public-spirited, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having or showing an unselfish desire for the public good. <BR> <I>Ex. A committee of 342 public-spirited men and women leaders ... has been organized (New York Times).</I> adv. <B>public-spiritedly.</B> noun <B>public-spiritedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="publictelevision">
<B>public television,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) noncommercial television broadcasting that features chiefly cultural and educational programs; educational television. </DL>
