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public interest

public interest noun: common good.

Noun

public interest (uncountable)

  1. Common good.
    • The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he...1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!
    • The culture, media and sport select committee criticised the News of the World in its report in February, stating that the story had not been in the public interest. "We found the News of the World editor's attempts to justify the Max Mosley story on public interest grounds wholly unpersuasive...2011 January 11, Afua Hirsch, Max Mosley's privacy claim reaches the European court of human rights, The Guardian
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: public interest.
    • Given her complex history with public interest in her dating life, I say, it seems noteworthy that her relationship with Kelce has played out so publicly.2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023

public interest meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Thai

public interest in Hindi

common good
जनहित janhit, लोकहित lokhit

public interest in Tamil

பொது நலன்

public interest in Kannada

ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಹಿತ, ಪ್ರಜಾಹಿತ

public interest in Thai

common good
ประโยชน์สาธารณะ bprà-yòot-sǎa-taa-rá-ná

Examples of public interest in a sentence

  • Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!:
  • The culture, media and sport select committee criticised the News of the World in its report in February, stating that the story had not been in the public interest.2011 January 11, Afua Hirsch, Max Mosley's privacy claim reaches the European court of human rights, The Guardian:

Questions about public interest

What does public interest mean?
Public interest means common good.
What is public interest in Hindi?
Public interest in Hindi is जनहित (janhit), लोकहित (lokhit). See Public interest meaning in Hindi.
How do you use public interest in a sentence?
Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
What part of speech is public interest?
Public interest is a noun.

Words near public interest in the dictionary

  1. public images
  2. public indecency
  3. public information officer
  4. public intellectual
  5. public intellectuals
  6. public interest
  7. public international law
  8. public intoxication
  9. public Ivies
  10. public Ivy
  11. public key

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Adapted from Wiktionary: public interest (page history and authors); public interest (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Public Interest (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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