public purse
Syllables: publ·ic purse/pʌblɪk ˈpɜːs/US/pʌblɪk ˈpɜɹs/
public purse noun: a quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and used for public purposes; public funds, public money.
Noun
public purse (plural public purses)
- A quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and used for public purposes; public funds, public money.
- Money in the public purse should be spent in the public interest.
- This means that while initial funding will come from the public purse, landowners along the route will eventually pay back a share of the uplift in land values created by the new line.2021 February 10, “Network News: Additional Funds Enable Preparatory Work for Ashington Reopening”, in Rail, number 924, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8
public purse meaning in Bengali
public purse in Bengali
- সরকারি তহবিল, সরকারি অর্থ
Forms of public purse
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Words that rhyme with public purse
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- purse
- worse
- -verse
- coerce
- converse
- excurse
- immerse
- multiverse
- obverse
- terce
- terse
- amerce
- asperse
- herse
- neurodiverse
- perse
- reimburse
- transverse
- a blessing and a curse
- absterse
- accurse
- costotransverse
- demerse
- disburse
- Erse
- intertransverse
- megadiverse
- murse
- nontransverse
- pretransverse
- recurse
- renverse
- sperse
- submerse
- subtransverse
- thurse
Questions about public purse
- What does public purse mean?
- Public purse means a quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and used for public purposes; public funds, public money.
- What is public purse in Bengali?
- Public purse in Bengali is সরকারি তহবিল, সরকারি অর্থ. See Public purse meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is public purse?
- Public purse is a noun.
- How do you pronounce public purse?
- Public purse is pronounced /pʌblɪk ˈpɜːs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of public purse?
- The plural of public purse is public purses.
Words near public purse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: public purse (page history and authors); public purse (Bengali 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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