public share

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicandshare

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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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share
noun
uk
/ʃeər/
us
/ʃer/
a part of something that has been divided between ...
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(Definition ofpublicandsharefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yet these systems nonetheless saw an overall shift towards an expandedpublicshareof spending in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Instead, the decline in thepublicshareof spending is a reflection mainly of policy drift.
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Other positive side effects include thepublicsharesales that have encouraged private firms also to arrange primary issues.
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The existence of the stock exchange also provided a boost to the privatisation programme as it facilitated sustained public interest throughpublicsharesales.
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In most nations where thepublicsharehas dropped, the strains of austerity have hit broadly.
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The fall in thepublicshareof spending suggests that the role of the welfare state is changing, but this change is almost certainly not caused by market reforms.
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The campaign requesting that thepublicsharetheir knowledge in order that we can win the battle against violence has had a tremendous response.
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That is a very serious charge to make, but unfortunately that is the belief that many members of thepublicshare.
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We envisage measures which will ensure a much greaterpublicsharein the benefits to be derived from this activity.
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We know that a widerpublicsharethose concerns.
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There is also no question but that the majority of thepublicsharethat view.
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As was pointed out earlier, there is alreadypublicshareownership.
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Councils with expansionary spending plans do indeed exert a counter pressure to the government's large social objective of reducing thepublicshareof the national income.
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Our detailed consultation and the many representations that we received from the public and other organisations showed that the majority of thepublicsharethat view.
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The fact that 95 per cent, of the companies to be nationalised had nopublicsharevalues made these rather hypothetical judgments, and will make them hypothetical judgments.
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The full-scale trade sale or thepublicshareissue has, apparently, been avoided in the interim—in the interim—but we must be cautious that it cannot take place in the future.
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Eurotunnel has recently agreed a loan facility of £72·5 million to provide interim finance until itspublicshareissue later in the year.
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Any attempt to assess thepublicshareof all party funds may start with the parties' annual reports.
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But it may be true to say that, had the parent company not made apublicshareoffering in 1969, it might have survived for much longer.
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Middlesbrough desperately needed capital but the opinions of board members were split over the idea to raise 1 million by apublicshareissue.
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