public address

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandaddress

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public
adjective
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/us
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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address
noun[C]
uk
/əˈdres/us
/ˈæd.res/
the number of the house, name of the road, and name of the town where a person lives or works, and where letters can ...
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(Definition ofpublicandaddressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This might include light control blinds, motors, sound equipment,publicaddresssystem, video projectors, deployable screens, smoke detectors, fibre-optics, electrical cabling and tracks.
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Thereafter, apublicaddresswould generally be used to propagate the beginning of each of the society's two annual sessions.
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Here texts are a kind of script that can only be interpreted if their context of delivery is imagined, for example apublicaddressto a great man.
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Drills are so arranged that they are not dependent upon apublicaddresssystem.
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It is difficult to take in what is squealing through thepublicaddresssystem.
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Most important, we shall expect an adequatepublicaddresssystem to be installed—one which is effective against the loud noise on sporting occasions.
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Thepublicaddresssystem was not complete when the new building was opened.
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I understand that listening topublicaddresssystems or community wireless receivers takes place in many dependencies and is being extended.
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Of those 37, only 22 havepublicaddresssystems by which to inform passengers of delays or changes.
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I am well aware thatpublicaddresssystems have their limitations.
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Other failures relate to the use ofpublicaddresssystems.
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But cannot thepublicaddresssystems in the stations be improved, and the operators better trained?
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That of a diameter larger than 12 inches shall be treated as apublicaddresssystem and so be immune.
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The demonstrators used powerfulpublicaddresssystems, that is, loudspeakers.
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I do not want apublicaddresssystem.
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Improvement programmes forpublicaddresssystems will also be deferred.
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That was done bypublicaddresssystems on fire appliances and by the local radio station.
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I mean by that, reporting of exercises and operations, the use of still and motion-picture photography, posters,publicaddressequipment, and the like.
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There is insufficient justification for the expenditure now needed to equip those trains with apublicaddresssystem.
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