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public purses

public purses is the plural of public purse.

Meaning of public purse

Noun

public purse (plural public purses)

  1. (idiomatic) 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.

Questions about public purses

What is public purses the plural of?
Public purses is the plural of public purse.

Words near public purses in the dictionary

  1. public properties
  2. public property
  3. public prosecutor
  4. public prosecutors
  5. public purse
  6. public purses
  7. public record
  8. public records
  9. public relations
  10. public rhetoric
  11. public safety announcement

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