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public knowledge

public knowledge noun: knowledge that is available or accessible to the public.

Noun

public knowledge (uncountable)

  1. Knowledge that is available or accessible to the public.
    • Mr. BENNETT. It was public knowledge. I got this knowledge by reading a stock certificate that 1,700 stockholders had.
    • Mr. GLADSTONE. And that is what you based that on, the fact that it was public knowledge, and not any direct relationship that you had?1936 June 19, “Testimony of Joseph A. Bennet”, in Investigation of Real Estate Bondholders' Reorganizations, United States House of Representatives, page 38

Examples of public knowledge in a sentence

  • By the time the existence and implications of MIRV became public knowledge, it had already been tested, the production of Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles had already commenced …1974, James R. Kurth, “American Military Policy and Advanced Weapons”, in Lee Rainwater, editor, Social Policy and Public Policy...
  • As new development projects can change the character of neighbourhoods, the process of approving or rejecting a project should be public knowledge.2014 October 17, Goh Ban Lee, “Local government in urban Malaysia”, in Meredith L. Weiss, editor, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary...

Questions about public knowledge

What does public knowledge mean?
Public knowledge means knowledge that is available or accessible to the public.
How do you use public knowledge in a sentence?
By the time the existence and implications of MIRV became public knowledge, it had already been tested, the production of Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles had already commenced …
What part of speech is public knowledge?
Public knowledge is a noun.

Words near public knowledge in the dictionary

  1. public key
  2. public key certificate
  3. public key certificates
  4. public key cryptography
  5. public keys
  6. public knowledge
  7. public law
  8. public laws
  9. public libraries
  10. public library
  11. public licence

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