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went public

went public is the simple past of go public.

Meaning of go public

Verb

go public (third-person singular simple present goes public, present participle going public, simple past went public, past participle gone public)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make something public; to announce publicly or to the press.
    • They threatened to go public with the photos unless I paid up.
  2. (idiomatic, intransitive) To launch an initial public offering.

Questions about went public

What is went public the simple past of?
Went public is the simple past of go public.

Words near went public in the dictionary

  1. went places
  2. went platinum
  3. went poof
  4. went postal
  5. went potty
  6. went public
  7. went quietly
  8. went rogue
  9. went round
  10. went round in circles
  11. went round the houses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: went public (page history and authors); go public (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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