public purse

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English

WOTD – 25 November 2024

Etymology

From public (adjective) +‎ purse (“(figurative) quantity of money given for a particular purpose”, noun).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

public purse (plural public purses)

  1. (economics, government, idiomatic) A quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and used for public purposes; public funds, public money.
    The public purse should be spent in the public interest.
    • 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:
      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.

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  1. ^ “the public purse” under “purse, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, September 2024; “public purse, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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