Openly vs Public - What's the difference?
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In an open manner, visibly, not covertly.
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Able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.
* 2011 , Sandra Laville, The Guardian , 18 Apr 2011:
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, title= Pertaining to all the people as a whole (as opposed a private group); concerning the whole country, community etc.
* 2010 , Adam Vaughan, The Guardian , 16 Sep 2010:
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Officially representing the community; carried out or funded by the state on behalf of the community.
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Open to all members of a community; especially, provided by national or local authorities and supported by money from taxes.
* 2011 , David Smith, The Guardian , 10 May 2011:
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, title= (of a company) Traded publicly via a stock market.
The people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
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(archaic) A public house; an inn.
As an adverb openly
is in an open manner, visibly, not covertly.As an adjective public is
public.openly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer;
citation, page= , passage=The openly ridiculous plot has The Pirate Captain (Hugh Grant) scheming to win the Pirate Of The Year competition, even though he’s a terrible pirate, far outclassed by rivals voiced by Jeremy Piven and Salma Hayek. }}
Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia public)Alternative forms
* publick, publicke, publique (all obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Earlier this month Godwin had to make a public apology to the family of Daniel Morgan after the collapse of a £30m inquiry into his murder in 1987.
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}
- A mere 3% of the more than 1,000 people interviewed said they actually knew what the conference was about. It seems safe to say public awareness of the Convention on Biological Awareness in Nagoya - and its goal of safeguarding wildlife - is close to non-existent.
citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.}}
- But culture's total budget is a tiny proportion of all public spending; it is one of the government's most visible success stories.
- Some are left for dead on rubbish tips, in refuge bags or at public toilets.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Antonyms
* privateDerived terms
* go public * in public * initial public offering * public address system * public assistance * public domain * public eye * public figure * public good * public health * Public Health System * public holiday * public house * public intellectual * public interest * public intoxication * public key * public law * public leaning post * public library * Public Limited Liability Company * public office * public policy * public-private partnership * public property * public school * public servant * public service * public speaking * public transportation * public works * publican * publically * publicly held * publicnessNoun
(en noun)- Members of the public may not proceed beyond this point.
citation, passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}
- Bush and Blair stand condemned by their own publics and face imminent political extinction.
- (Sir Walter Scott)