public facility

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandfacility

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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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facility
noun
uk
/fəˈsɪl.ə.ti/us
/fəˈsɪl.ə.t̬i/
a place, especially including buildings, where a particular ...
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(Definition ofpublicandfacilityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpublic facility

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This programme is part of the only acute care teaching general hospital facility for this catchment area with no competing private orpublicfacility.
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There has been massive investment in apublicfacility.
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Since one large state hospital contributed most of the patients in our 'publicfacility' category, these associations might simply reflect the institutional culture of that particular hospital.
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If that is done, the rest, surely, is apublicfacilitywhich should be open to the public.
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No post office closure is ever popular; there are downsides to the closure of anypublicfacility.
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He goes on to say that this would certainly be the result of serving an injunction to stop a company constructing some inaccessiblepublicfacility.
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It must be made clear that those who have suggested that the pontoon is apublicfacilityare not strictly correct.
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People who wish to destroy apublicfacility, through no other motive than a wish to wreck something, are beneath contempt.
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We may take as one example the purchase of a specialist piece of equipment which is required for a sporting event at a university or apublicfacility.
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The church is now apublicfacilityand no longer holds services.
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It is now apublicfacilityand the site of an agricultural school.
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This ambitious effort involves historic preservation, interpretive exhibits, and a newpublicfacility.
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During the reporting period it remained difficult, particularly for unregistered groups, to rent apublicfacility.
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After 1962 the hall was re-opened as apublicfacility.
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As a project in 2005, it was the secondpublicfacilityin the country with the equipment.
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Without apublicfacility, all meetings were held in their homes and long hours spent on village business.
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A rest area or rest stop with limited or nopublicfacilityis a parking area or scenic area.
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The goal was not only to house the company, but also to build apublicfacilityfor dance.
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The building of a head office andpublicfacilityso close to critical wildlife habitat was the cause of controversy in the 1980s.
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In the 19th century this park, which was then apublicfacility, was nearly destroyed by the construction of the railway.
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There was originally some controversy about allowing apublicfacilityto house an upscale boating dock within the new artificial harbour.
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The museum is apublicfacilityproviding visitors with an appreciation of an authentic experience with 19th and early 20th century horse-drawn transportation.
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However, when they have left thepublicfacility, she says she will keep the pin of the handgranade as a souvenir.
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This section also designs the community, a task which includes the zoning of residential, commercial andpublicfacilitybuildings and the transportation system.
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