public forum

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandforum

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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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forum
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɔː.rəm/us
/ˈfɔːr.əm/
a situation or meeting in which people can talk about a problem or matter especially of ...
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(Definition ofpublicandforumfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpublic forum

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This debate takes place not only in academic circles, but also in thepublicforum.
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He argued that the only good thought was that which could be debated in apublicforumand stand up against public scrutiny.
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Spiritual correction was performed in thepublicforum, the market place.
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Instead, they used thepublicforumof rock discourse to open the closed worlds of the home and women's emotional life to expression in rock.
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That is, citizens and members of the legislature, when acting in thepublicforum, should not be legally allowed to violate those rights either.
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So what was unusual here was not the sentiment expressed, but rather its expression in such apublicforum.
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It was during this period that the journal was established as thepublicforumfor science.
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They are the social science counterparts to the evolutionary biologists most vocally rebuked by the evolutionary psychologists in thepublicforum.
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Focus groups can be seen as experiments in constituting apublicforum, one that is new for many of the par ticipants.
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However alien the courts may have seemed, they provided a relatively disinterestedpublicforumin which the women could negotiate their claims and secure their rights.
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Perhaps even more significantly, their goals were accomplished in apublicforum, in a place where the widows no longer had to defer to the whims of men.
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The latter was often applied in thepublicforumnot so much to embarrass a colleague, but to affirm his own pedigree and sense of irony.
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These issues notwithstanding, the court was confronted by the reality that they had to reformulate how they presented themselves not only ideologically, but also literally in apublicforum.
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It is not our practice to disclose details of individual entry clearance cases in apublicforum.
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Further, there has never been anypublicforumestablished at which the proposals could be tested by the adversary process of cross-examination.
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That was used as apublicforumfor the ideas of the working group.
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I presume that that procedure does not involve the elected representatives directly or any form of debate or discussion, at least in thepublicforum.
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The merits of the case have never been discussed in anypublicforum.
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This is not a new subject in thepublicforum.
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