public property

Noun

Meaning

property owned by a government

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

commons community ownership state ownership public ownership private area communal ownership individual property specific area own property particular ownership particular area specific field particular territory personal area private field
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Antonyms

private property personal property own property individual property particular ownership own area
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Hypernyms

property holding belongings

Examples

An illegal monument to the British talent for binge drinking and vandalising public property. Banksy

The laws of the state forbid that walls abutting on public property should be more than a foot and a half thick. ...Now brick walls, unless two or three bricks thick, cannot support more than one story; certainly not if they are only a foot and a half in thickness. Vitruvius

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq. Ernest Istook

If it's in the bin, it's public property. Sophie Kinsella

I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. Stephen Hawking

Close letter words and terms

public print public procurator public prominence public prosecutor public purpose public purse