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public works

public works noun: technical projects, often construction or engineering, carried out by the government on behalf of the community.

Noun

public works pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Technical projects, often construction or engineering, carried out by the government on behalf of the community.

public works meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Tagalog and Malay

public works in Tamil

பொதுப்பணிகள்

public works in Kannada

ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕ ಕಾಮಗಾರಿ, ಲೋಕೋಪಯೋಗಿ, ಕಾಮಗಾರಿ

public works in Tagalog

projects carried out by the government
pagawaing-bayan

public works in Malay

projects carried out by the government
kerja awam
More languagesFewer languages
public works in Indonesian
pekerjaan umum
public works in Vietnamese
công chính

Questions about public works

What does public works mean?
Public works means technical projects, often construction or engineering, carried out by the government on behalf of the community.
What is public works in Tamil?
Public works in Tamil is பொதுப்பணிகள். See Public works meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is public works?
Public works is a noun.

Words near public works in the dictionary

  1. public utility vehicles
  2. public walk
  3. public walks
  4. public woman
  5. public women
  6. public works
  7. public-hearted
  8. public-house
  9. public-houses
  10. public-key cryptography
  11. public-minded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: public works (page history and authors); public works (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); public works (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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