public purse
noun/pʌblɪk ˈpɜːs/UK/pʌblɪk ˈpɜɹs/US
Definitions
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