Meaning of public purse | Babel Free

Definitions

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

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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