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go public

go public verb: to make something public; to announce publicly or to the press.

Verb

go public (third-person singular simple present goes public, present participle going public, simple past went public, past participle gone public)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make something public; to announce publicly or to the press.
    • They threatened to go public with the photos unless I paid up.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To launch an initial public offering.

go public meaning in Kannada

go public in Kannada

ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕವಾಗು, ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಾಗು

Forms of go public

third-person singular presentgoes public
present participlegoing public
pastwent public
past participlegone public

Questions about go public

What does go public mean?
Go public means to make something public; to announce publicly or to the press.
What is go public in Kannada?
Go public in Kannada is ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕವಾಗು, ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಯಾಗು. See Go public meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is go public?
Go public is a verb.
What is the past tense of go public?
The past tense of go public is went public.

Words near go public in the dictionary

  1. go play in traffic
  2. go play with yourself
  3. go poof
  4. go postal
  5. go potty
  6. go public
  7. go quietly
  8. go rogue
  9. go round
  10. go round in circles
  11. go round the houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: go public (page history and authors); go 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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