'Public funds' definitions:
Definition of 'Public funds'
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- Public \Pub"lic\, a. [L. publicus, poblicus, fr. populus people: cf. F. public. See People.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury. [1913 Webster]
- To the public good Private respects must yield. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. --D. Webster. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal. [1913 Webster]
- Joseph, . . . not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily. --Matt. i. 19. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house. "The public street." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- public act or public statute (Law), an act or statute affecting matters of public concern. Of such statutes the courts take judicial notice.
- Public credit. See under Credit.
- Public funds. See Fund, 3.
- Public house, an inn, or house of entertainment.
- Public law. (a) See International law, under International. (b) A public act or statute.
- Public nuisance. (Law) See under Nuisance.
- Public orator. (Eng. Universities) See Orator, 3.
- Public stores, military and naval stores, equipments, etc.
- Public works, all fixed works built by civil engineers for public use, as railways, docks, canals, etc.; but strictly, military and civil engineering works constructed at the public cost. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'public funds'
From: GCIDE
- Fund \Fund\, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish.]
- 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. [1913 Webster]
- 4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. [1913 Webster]
- An inexhaustible fund of stories. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest. [1913 Webster]