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public records

public records is the plural of public record.

Meaning of public record

Noun

public record (usually uncountable, plural public records)

  1. (usually) Information that has been filed with or recorded by a government agency.
    • The city's annual budget is in the public record, so if we want, we can go back and see how it's changed over time.

Questions about public records

What is public records the plural of?
Public records is the plural of public record.

Words near public records in the dictionary

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

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