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general public

general public noun: those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.

Noun

general public pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.
  2. (plural, plural-only) Members of the public not in the attentive public of any given issue; laypeople.
    • After days of intensifying pressure from runners, politicians and the general public to call off the New York City Marathon in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, city officials and the event’s organizers decided Friday afternoon to cancel the race.2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012

general public meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Vietnamese

general public in Tamil

members of the public who have no special role
பொதுமக்கள் potumakkaḷ
laypeople
பொதுமக்கள் potumakkaḷ

general public in Kannada

ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರು

general public in Arabic

members of the public who have no special role
عَامَّة اَلنَّاس ʕāmmat an-nās

general public in Vietnamese

members of the public who have no special role
công chúng, xã hội

Questions about general public

What does general public mean?
General public means those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.
What is general public in Tamil?
General public in Tamil is பொதுமக்கள் (potumakkaḷ). See General public meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is general public?
General public is a noun.

Words near general public in the dictionary

  1. general populations
  2. general practice
  3. general practices
  4. general practitioner
  5. general practitioners
  6. general public
  7. general quarters
  8. general relativity
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  10. General Responsibility Assignment Software Principles
  11. general retainer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: general public (page history and authors); general public (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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