public domain

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicanddomain

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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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domain
noun[C]
uk
/dəˈmeɪn/us
/doʊˈmeɪn/
an area of interest or an area over which a person ...
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(Definition ofpublicanddomainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpublic domain

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There are other commercial packages, and there is even some free software in thepublicdomain.
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The plan form of this space is flared - a metaphor for the idea of its contents being broadcast to thepublicdomain.
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Sustainability has undeniably become a force that has tackled some major issues and through certification brands, has brought these issues into thepublicdomain.
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This field is ours alone, although others too can claim, and have claimed, the status of bioethicists in thepublicdomain.
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For its users, the beach amounted to a summer-long carnival and a democratic experience of sharing thepublicdomain.
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Experts also found they could not necessarily control their representations of risk once they entered thepublicdomain.
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As in the case of the married man cited above, trust makes it possible to separate the private decision from thepublicdomain.
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That can be assessed by comparative economic indicators in thepublicdomain.
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Religion has come back into thepublicdomainand has become once more the subject of an intense and rich discussion.
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This can, moreover, include any significant text that enters thepublicdomain.
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The emergence of the trial narrative into thepublicdomainthus signals that experimental practice had found a new authority.
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Some of those observations were, for the delegates, relevant to the topic at hand (suffrage, thepublicdomain); other comments seem random.
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While in some senses what is provided duplicates material already in thepublicdomain, as a learning resource this approach is very useful.
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The scope of experimental procedure can be extended to internal experience only by projecting that experience into thepublicdomain.
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This is the fourth illustration of publicly generated and accessible data for ageing research in thepublicdomain.
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As minors, they had no role in thepublicdomain, being denied any participation in the political affairs of the country.
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That arena outside our houses (camera view) is part of thepublicdomainwithin which experiments can be conducted.
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Many of the leisure activities in thepublicdomainwere undertaken with the spouse or other family members.
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That arena outside our houses is a part of thepublicdomainwithin which objective experiments can be conducted.
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I look forward to more of this in thepublicdomain, sooner rather than later.
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