public consumption
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpublicandconsumption
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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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consumption
noun[U]
uk/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/us/kənˈsʌmp.ʃən/
the amount used ...
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(Definition ofpublicandconsumptionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These cases show the tremendous importance of framing by the individual for both government andpublicconsumption.
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The translators' 'sweet water lakes produce salt forpublicconsumption' seems wrong.
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The negative effect of the share of output devoted topublicconsumptionis worth noting.
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Our hero wrote nothing forpublicconsumption, and was involved in no pamphlet debate or contemporary controversy.
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That virtually all of this work is forpublicconsumptioncan only add considerably to the strain inherent in its production.
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Forpublicconsumption, the king was presented in terms that highlighted his purity, simultaneously physical and spiritual.
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From 1932 onwards, exports lose their explanatory power, and are replaced bypublicconsumption, internal consumption and investment.
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Here, the actress ventured into new realms ofpublicconsumptionand discourse.
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But the particularly contradictory situation is that this overt view of their local variety as 'bad speech' is forpublicconsumptiononly.
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The transcripts were available only to a very narrow readership, and therefore did not require cleaning up forpublicconsumption.
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While health care consumption is in reality a mixture of a private andpublicconsumptiongood, it is a purepublicconsumptiongood in our model.
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The rest, due topublicconsumption, investment (for future private andpublicconsumption) and net exports, has to be accounted for by all the households jointly.
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It was produced explicitly forpublicconsumption.
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Campbell argued that any intelligence document fit forpublicconsumptionrequires clarification to make it a better, stronger document.
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Berman does not intimate who attended this meeting or whether its content was meant forpublicconsumption.
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This study suggests, then, that while the cycles before 1933 were driven by exports, the cycles identified after this year were shaped by private consumption,publicconsumptionand investment.
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This source-base is a strength of the book, but also a limitation : these are all documents intended for official or at leastpublicconsumption, written by an educated elite.
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Finally, a fertility rate reduction that leaves unaffected the rate of generational turnover is shown to have effects qualitatively similar to those of a fall inpublicconsumption.
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