public good

collocation in English

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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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Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the futurepublicgood.
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Far from being mired in self-interest, merchants, these writers affirmed, dedicated themselves to thepublicgood.
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Secondly, privatisation of water delivery undermines the legitimacy of the state, since it entails a transfer of apublicgoodto the private domain.
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Thepublicgoodwas easy to uphold when you counted yourself as one of the best and first.
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Most significantly, it reveals the increasing potency of the language of 'publicgood' in political discussions regarding rights and privileges of local corporate bodies.
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Unsurprisingly, the music industry was not directly involved in the policy making, neither funding programmes nor organisations that served apublicgood.
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The public health act as well as the traditional social ethics of group solidarity both emphasize the utilitarian promotion of thepublicgood.
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But social capital is not only apublicgood.
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It should also be mentioned that our definition (14) implies that emissions are apublicgood, or, more appropriately, a public bad.
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Both of these effects disappear if there is proportional congestion, = 0, when in equilibrium the agent enjoys his individual share of thepublicgood.
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The deputy who most effectively demonstrated his city's consideration for thepublicgoodwould ultimately win the vote of the councillors.
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That is, in the terms that agitated contemporary debate, it spoke to questions of private interest andpublicgood.
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With peace keeping, the primarypublicgoodproduced is political-military stability in a con-ict-prone region.
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The government uses lump-sum taxes imposed on households to finance the provision of apublicgood.
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His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one who succumbed to self-interested ambition and subordinated thepublicgoodto the personal.
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In the absence of markets, supply and demand curves for this classicalpublicgoodcan at least be imagined, if not simulated.
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The park manager will then be in charge of the preferences of apublicgood.
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There is obvious synergy between this recommendation and one to increase public research on thepublicgoodaspects of agricultural biotechnology.
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