public purse

noun
/pʌblɪk ˈpɜːs/UK/pʌblɪk ˈpɜɹs/US

Definitions

  1. A quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and…

    A quantity of money collected by a government through taxation and other methods, and used for public purposes; public funds, public money.

    • Money in the public purse should be spent in the public interest.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for public purse. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA