Public vs Walkabout - What's the difference?
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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.
(Australian aboriginal) A nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes
A walking trip
(British) A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally
An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
(Australian)Colloquially used to denote any missing or stolen object ie. "The paper shredder seems to have gone walkabout."
(public stroll)
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Australian Aboriginal English
As nouns the difference between public and walkabout
is that public is the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group while walkabout is (australian aboriginal) a nomadic excursion into the bush, especially one taken by young teenage boys in certain ancient-custom honoring tribes.As a adjective public
is able to be seen or known by everyone; open to general view, happening without concealment.public
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)