Meanings
- uncountableKnowledge that is available or accessible to the public.
As new development projects can change the character of neighbourhoods, the process of approving or rejecting a project should be public knowledge.
2014 October 17, Goh Ban Lee, “Local government in urban Malaysia”, in Meredith L. Weiss, editor, Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Malaysia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 992 more examples
Mr. BENNETT. It was public knowledge. I got this knowledge by reading a stock certificate that 1,700 stockholders had. Mr. GLADSTONE. And that is what you based that on, the fact that it was public knowledge, and not any direct relationship that you had?
1936 June 19, “Testimony of Joseph A. Bennet”, in Investigation of Real Estate Bondholders' Reorganizations, United States House of Representatives, page 38By the time the existence and implications of MIRV became public knowledge, it had already been tested, the production of Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles had already commenced …
1974, James R. Kurth, “American Military Policy and Advanced Weapons”, in Lee Rainwater, editor, Social Policy and Public Policy, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 341
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